While few states have laws crafted specifically to regulate AI, they all have measures that cover the technology, Troutman Pepper lawyers said during a podcast episode. Adding to the AI uncertainty is the Trump administration's anti-regulatory stance and rumblings that the failed federal moratorium blocking state AI laws will be resurrected. As such, preparing for various scenarios is recommended, the attorneys said.
Health care providers must balance the benefits of deploying AI chatbots while ensuring legal safeguards are in place that protect patient privacy, said Womble Bond research consultant Amy Hill in a blog post Monday. In particular, they must comply with regulations within the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), she added.
As the integration of AI tools into everyday workflow without formal oversight increases, security incidents rise as well, said Monday's MoFo Privacy Minute blog post. However, training and technical guardrails can help mitigate the risks of AI use, Morrison Foerster lawyers Linda Clark and Dan Alam added.
California set a standard for other states to follow on regulating automated decision-making technology (ADMT), but the bar isn't as high as it should be, consumer privacy advocates said Wednesday in a blog post for the Center for Democracy & Technology.
North Carolina will aim to upgrade its AI literacy, governance and deployment through an executive order by Gov. Josh Stein (D), his office said Tuesday. The order creates an AI council, an “AI Accelerator” and AI oversight teams within each state agency.
As AI and other data-rich emerging technologies become more prevalent and amp up the need for information, organizations must ensure their privacy policies and practices help engender customer trust, said JoAnn Stonier, Mastercard fellow of data and AI, said Wednesday.
California’s Judicial Council adopted a rule July 18 requiring court staff who use generative AI in their work to do so within the parameters of a use policy. A task force that developed the rule understood "the rapid evolution" of generative AI and, instead of "prescribing whether and how" courts can deploy the technology, attempted "to situate" its use "into a framework reflecting and applying broad legal, ethical, and professional principles," Morgan Lewis lawyer Jeffrey Niemczura said in a Thursday blog post.
Proton said it’s adding a privacy-respecting AI assistant called Lumo to its email service. “With no logs kept and every chat encrypted, Lumo keeps your conversations confidential and your data fully under your control -- never shared, sold, or stolen,” Proton blogged Wednesday.
The U.S. should urge international trading partners to remove cloud service restrictions and cross-border data restrictions, the Business Software Alliance said Monday, launching its AI Adoption Agenda.
AI-equipped social robots may “seem like a natural evolution of traditional smart home devices,” but “their extensive data collection capabilities, anthropomorphic features, and capacity to interact with their environment make social robots a more significant security and privacy threat,” said a Duke University paper released this week.