The European Commission cast a wide regulatory net over artificial intelligence (AI) technologies and practices last month when it proposed new rules for AI on April 21, 2021 (link to PDF here). For those in the U.S. wondering whether the future rules might apply to them, the answer may...

If the European Commission’s newly proposed harmonized rules on Artificial Intelligence (the “Artificial Intelligence Act”) (published April 21, 2021) are adopted, U.S.-based AI companies operating in European Union (EU) countries (or expecting to do so) may soon be subject to significant new regulatory requirements. The proposed regulations (available PDF...

In this peer-reviewed article (Journal of Science and Law; open source), my co-author and I discuss how access to data is an essential part of artificial intelligence (AI) technology development efforts. But government and corporate actors have increasingly imposed localized and hyper-localized restrictions on data due to rising mistrust—the...

The nation’s consumer protection watchdog–the Federal Trade Commission (FTC)–took extraordinary law enforcement measures on January 11, 2021, after finding an artificial intelligence company had deceived customers about its data collection and use practices. In a first of its kind settlement involving facial recognition surveillance systems, the FTC ordered Everalbum,...

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...