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Are Europe’s Proposed AI Regulations Tough Enough?

June 11, 2021

The European Commission’s proposed new regulations for artificial intelligence (AI) technologies and systems (link to PDF here; issued April 21, 2021) include enforcement provisions that would empower public authorities to monitor regulated AI entities operating in the European Union (EU) and seek stiff fines from those that do not comply with the rules. The proposed regulations would also grant authorities the power to impose non-monetary penalties, including ordering offending companies to remove their AI…

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Approaching Applicability of Europe’s Proposed AI Regulations as a Classification Task

By Brian Higgins

May 4, 2021

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). Similar to how the AI technologies the rules are intended to regulate solve problems, assessing whether the Regulations apply to a particular AI system or practice essentially reduces to a data-driven classification solution, though a complex and legal one. The task involves…

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Proposed New EU AI Regulations: A Pre-Planning Guide for U.S. In-House Counsel

By Brian Higgins

April 27, 2021

If the EU 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 countries (or expecting to do so) may soon be subject to significant new regulatory requirements. The proposed regulations, with few exceptions, would apply to companies or individuals (“providers”) who place on the market or put into service certain high-risk AI systems in the EU, “users” (including companies)…

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Artificial Intelligence and Trust: Improving Transparency and Explainability Policies to Reverse Data Hyper-Localization Trends

By Brian Higgins

April 17, 2021

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 fear and uncertainty about what countries and companies are doing with data, including perceived and real efforts to exploit user data or create more…

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FTC Orders AI Company to Delete its Model Following Consumer Protection Law Violation

By Brian Higgins

February 3, 2021

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, Inc., the now shuttered maker of the “Ever” photo album app and related website, to delete or destroy any machine learning and other models or algorithms…

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Artificial Intelligence, GANs, and the law of Synthetic Data: Lawmakers React to False Media Content

By Brian Higgins

December 20, 2020

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 federal government’s attention on the technology. If signed by the president, the legislation will require two federal agencies to study the role GANs play in…

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Artificial Intelligence, GANs, and the law of Synthetic Data: Lawmakers React to False Media Content

By Brian Higgins

December 20, 2020

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A Look Into the Future of AI Governance

By Brian Higgins

November 29, 2020

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 federal lawmakers introduced their own measure. The White House in January began exploring frameworks for governing AI. Still, the AI legal landscape remains uncertain especially for…

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A Look Into the Future of AI Governance

By Brian Higgins

November 26, 2020

The year 2020 may be remembered for its pernicious pandemic and contentious 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 federal lawmakers introduced their own measure. The White House government proposing new laws and began exploring regulatory frameworks. Still, the AI legal landscape remains…

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Eliminating Structural Bias in Data-Based Technologies: A Path Forward

By Brian Higgins

July 24, 2020

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 amplified in recent weeks in the wake of reports of a black Michigan man who was apparently arrested solely on the misidentification decision of a facial…

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Are Europe’s Proposed AI Regulations Tough Enough?

Approaching Applicability of Europe’s Proposed AI Regulations as a Classification Task

Proposed New EU AI Regulations: A Pre-Planning Guide for U.S. In-House Counsel

Artificial Intelligence and Trust: Improving Transparency and Explainability Policies to Reverse Data Hyper-Localization Trends

FTC Orders AI Company to Delete its Model Following Consumer Protection Law Violation

Artificial Intelligence, GANs, and the law of Synthetic Data: Lawmakers React to False Media Content

Artificial Intelligence, GANs, and the law of Synthetic Data: Lawmakers React to False Media Content

A Look Into the Future of AI Governance

A Look Into the Future of AI Governance

Eliminating Structural Bias in Data-Based Technologies: A Path Forward

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