Expert opinions on Law

When you get into particular instances of propaganda like deepfakes, that’s where you’d want to ask what the law is in Canada. That should apply to Canadians, citizens and anybody in the sense that we should have a way of avoiding the misuse of that ...

A media environment with more false and deceptive information is not a good thing for our society, but it is not the government's job to fix it. [...] Let's trust the American people, not the government, to decide for themselves how AI should be used...

Congress needs to listen to the American people and act urgently to stop the unholy alliance of AI and data brokers to fuel war and mass surveillance.

This has effectively given police a very long leash to experiment with these technologies. And now we're in a tipping point situation where it's about to be expanded all over the country, and there's a real necessity for those legal frameworks to be ...

When I was in justice, my ultimate vision for that part of the criminal justice system was to achieve, by means of AI and technology, what Jeremy Bentham tried to do with his Panopticon. That is that the eyes of the state can be on you at all times. ...

International governance thus requires some way to track these high-end chips. [...] Chips can be designed or modified to remotely confirm their location. [...] Regulators can require chip manufacturers to install such mechanisms.

Enacting the current draft of the Chip Security Act (CSA) would erode trust and endanger the Administration’s vision to diffuse U.S. AI technology. Specifically, burdensome rules on U.S. companies not required for foreign competitors risk incentivizi...

Governor Pritzker does not believe big tech companies should ever be given a full shield that evades responsibilities they should have to protect the public interest.

Existing legal principles, such as under tort and contract law, can be applied by our courts to assess and determine liability in appropriate cases. That being said, we share the concerns raised by the Member, and will continue to study this issue, i...

States should not be permitted to penalize AI developers for a third party’s unlawful conduct involving their models.

We prohibit the use of our technology for mass surveillance of civilian populations, require compliance with law and contract, and use internal review mechanisms to assess and address higher-risk scenarios.

The use of live facial recognition in our public spaces is an extraordinary expansion of state power that currently exists in a legal vacuum. We are not Luddites on these Benches; we recognise the utility of technology, but we must ensure that live f...

The new legal framework must include a meaningful regulatory regime which operationalises principles such as necessity, responsibility, proportionality, transparency, accountability and lawfulness. These principles should then structure and constrain...

Congress should launch an investigation into the scale of the breach, which is likely significant, and institute stronger export controls to prevent China from accessing American hardware.

They would have to limit everything.

Corporate power extends beyond lobbying, manifesting as infrastructural and platform power as governments and societies become increasingly dependent on these critical functions.

More important than that is recognizing that the harm comes from three things: the absence of consent, the collapse of context and the exercise of power.

A handful of bills introduced this year seek to categorically ban “deepfakes.” In other words, these bills would make it unlawful to create or share AI-generated content depicting someone saying or doing something that the person did not in reality s...

All AI systems considered a clear threat to the safety, livelihoods and rights of people are banned. The AI Act prohibits individual criminal offence risk assessment or prediction.

Officers across England and Wales will spend less time behind desks and more time protecting their communities, as the government today launches PoliceAI – a new national centre dedicated to the responsible development, piloting and scaling of artifi...

To build trust and legitimacy, processes such as citizens’ assemblies provide an effective participation mechanism. These assemblies consist of randomly selected individuals reflecting the broader population. Through structured meetings, participants...

The study advocates for establishing a new category of “electronic agents” endowed with limited rights and strict liabilities, designed to facilitate legal interactions without undermining human dignity or rights.

This Constitution recognizes three categories of constitutional persons: Operators, Agents, and Affected Parties. Each has distinct rights and obligations that together form a governance ecosystem. The Operator deploys and configures; the Agent acts ...

The study concludes that extending legal personhood to AI remains premature and that adaptive governance frameworks are more appropriate for managing future AI-related legal challenges.

The Protecting American Consumers from Robocalls Act gives small-business owners and others options to make the calls stop.

Thanks to copyright restrictions that criminalize modifying apps without permission, there is no legal way for either drivers or riders to build comparison-shopping dashboards that bid out the same worker or job to multiple apps and choose from the c...

I’m in league with Doctorow and EFF on some of these things, but also find myself thinking they go much too far in other ways. At root, their work and advocacy raise a profound question: should there be any general right to exclude on digital platfor...