Companies developing artificial intelligence-based products and services have been on the lookout for laws and regulations aimed at their technology. In the case of facial recognition, new federal and state laws seem closer than ever. Examples include Washington State’s recent
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Government Plans to Issue Technical Standards Governing Artificial Intelligence Technologies
On February 11, 2019, the White House published a plan for developing and protecting artificial intelligence technologies in the United States, citing economic and national security concerns among other reasons for the action. Coming two years after Beijing’s 2017 announcement
Washington State Seeks to Root Out Bias in Artificial Intelligence Systems
The harmful effects of biased algorithms have been widely reported. Indeed, some of the world’s leading tech companies have been accused of producing applications, powered by artificial intelligence (AI) technologies, that were later discovered to exhibit certain racial, cultural, gender,
What’s in a Name? A Chatbot Given a Human Name is Still Just an Algorithm
Due in part to the learned nature of artificial intelligence technologies, the spectrum of things that exhibit “intelligence” has, in debates over such things, expanded to include certain advanced AI systems. If a computer vision system can “learn” to recognize
The Role of Explainable Artificial Intelligence in Patent Law
Although the notion of “explainable artificial intelligence” (AI) has been suggested as a necessary component of governing AI technology, at least for the reason that transparency leads to trust and better management of AI systems in the wild, one area
California Appeals Court Denies Defendant Access to Algorithm That Contributed Evidence to His Conviction
One of the concerns expressed by those studying algorithmic decision-making is the apparent lack of transparency. Those impacted by adverse algorithmic decisions often seek transparency to better understand the basis for the decisions. In the case of software used in
Thanks to Bots, Transparency Emerges as Lawmakers’ Choice for Regulating Algorithmic Harm
Digital conversational agents, like Amazon’s Alexa and Apple’s Siri, and communications agents, like those found on customer service website pages, seem to be everywhere. The remarkable increase in the use of these and other artificial intelligence-powered “bots” in everyday customer-facing
AI’s Problems Attract More Congressional Attention
As contentious political issues continue to distract Congress before the November midterm elections, federal legislative proposals aimed at governing artificial intelligence (AI) have largely stalled in the Senate and House. Since December 2017, nine AI-focused bills, such as the AI Reporting
Generative Adversarial Networks and the Rise of Fake Faces: an Intellectual Property Perspective
The tremendous growth in the artificial intelligence (AI) sector over the last several years may be attributed in large part to the proliferation of so-called big data. But even today, data sets of sufficient size and quality are not always
Will “Leaky” Machine Learning Usher in a New Wave of Lawsuits?
A computer science professor at Cornell University has a new twist on Marc Andreessen’s 2011 pronouncement that software is “eating the world.” According to Vitaly Shmatikov, it is “machine learning [that] is eating the world” today. His personification is