It didn’t take long for someone to turn generative adversarial networks (GAN)–a machine learning technique that at first blush seemed benign and of somewhat limited utility at its unveiling–into a tool with the ability to cause real harm.  Now, Congress has stepped up and passed legislation to focus the...

The year 2020 may be remembered for its pandemic and presidential election. But it also marked a turning point in efforts to regulate artificial intelligence (AI) technologies and the systems that embody them. State lawmakers in two states joined Illinois in enacting laws directed at AI-generated biometric data, and...

As national protests over systemic and structural racism in America continue, community organizers, Black scholars, and others fighting injustice and unequal treatment are once again raising awareness of a long-standing problem lurking within artificial intelligence data-based technologies: bias. The campaign to root out bias–or eliminate biased systems altogether–has been...

On February 19, 2020, the European Union Commission issued a plan for regulating high-risk artificial intelligence (AI) technologies developed or deployed in the EU. Calling it a “White Paper on Artificial Intelligence: a European Approach to Excellence and Trust,” the plan was published along with a companion “European Strategy...

When Microsoft shared in 2018 that certain “deficiencies” surrounding its artificial intelligence practices could “subject us to competitive harm, legal liability, and brand or reputational harm,” it set the stage for other companies to self-report perceived risks associated with developing, using and producing AI technologies. Disclosing risks–a Securities and...

Imagine you’ve spent months developing and deploying a revenue-generating deep neural network model only to discover that an attacker has stolen the model’s knowledge and will soon offer a service that will steer potential users away from yours.  Flashes of late nights and weekends spent collecting and cleaning data...