New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) should veto the Responsible AI Safety and Education (RAISE) Act, the Computer & Communications Industry Association (CCIA) said Tuesday.
A long-awaited California Report on Frontier AI Policy calls for “targeted interventions” that “balance the technology’s benefits and material risks.” Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) on Tuesday announced the report's release. A group of academics and other experts that Newsom organized wrote it in the wake of his vetoing a controversial bill last year by Sen. Scott Wiener (D) on AI frontier models (see 2409300011).
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Risk assessments and other preemptive analyses of AI and privacy systems are the best ways of negating harms before they arise, said panelists during an Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) event Monday about California’s proposed AI and privacy regulations.
Last month’s Privacy Law Scholars Conference showed exploding interest in privacy, as well as growing concern about how the government may be weaponizing personal information, said PLSC Chair Ari Waldman in an interview with Privacy Daily earlier this month. The May 28-29 meeting was the privacy scholars’ first conference since penning a letter that raised concerns about the Trump administration.
New York's Senate rushed through AI legislation without taking stakeholder feedback into account -- favorable or unfavorable, the Business Software Alliance (BSA) said Friday. Meanwhile, the Software Information Industry Association (SIIA) said it’s dissatisfied with recent changes to one of the bills.
Enacting a federally imposed 10-year moratorium on enforcing state-level AI laws (see 2506120083) wouldn't necessarily end the debate about the benefits and problems of regulation, panelists indicated during a Cato Institute event Thursday. While they agreed a bevy of state laws would blunt AI innovation and prompt legal challenges, their views varied about how best to protect citizens from potential AI harms, including privacy risks, and still stimulate innovation. In the end, even Congress' moratorium won't end confusion over AI regulation, one panelist said.
The New York Senate voted in support of a bill regulating high-risk AI with enforcement from the attorney general and through a private right of action.
While immigrants seem to be the current target of mass-data collection, the federal government's collection of massive amounts of personal information has implications for other populations, including those who speak out against Washington, panelists said during a webinar Wednesday hosted by the Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT) and the Leadership Conference’s Center for Civil Rights & Technology.
Meta AI users posting what's typically private information for everyone to see on the app is raising questions about whether all users understand they’re sharing their AI queries with the world. Users on X posted about the trend this week with many examples.