At a recent Stanford-MIT-Princeton workshop, experts highlight the need for legal protections, standardized evaluation practices, and better terminology to support third-party AI evaluations. On October 28, researchers at Stanford, MIT, Princeton’s Center for Information Technology Policy, and Humane Intelligence convened leaders from academia, industry, civil society and government for a virtual workshop to articulate a […]

At a recent Stanford-MIT-Princeton workshop, experts highlight the need for legal protections, standardized evaluation practices, and better terminology to support third-party AI evaluations. Millions of people worldwide use general purpose AI systems: They use ChatGPT to write documents, Claude to analyze data, and Stable Diffusion to generate images. While these AI systems offer significant benefits, […]

The Senate Committee on the Judiciary’s Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology, and the Law hearing titled “Oversight of AI: Insiders’ Perspective” on September 17, 2024 sought to understand how and why the government can and should regulate the burgeoning industry. I attended the hearing and am writing to share my impressions here. Chock-full of analogies that […]

On August 16, 2024, the Ninth Circuit ruled in NetChoice v. Bonta to strike significant portions of California’s Age-Appropriate Design Code (AADC) on First Amendment grounds. The Act was designed to enhance privacy and safety provisions for children online. The Ninth Circuit Court upheld the law’s ban on “dark patterns,” finding that the provision regulates conduct rather […]

This post is about a Syllabus of Actions, the result of last fall’s Building the Society We Want workshop, co-hosted by Princeton’s Center for Information Technology Policy and Center for Human Values. The central theme of the workshop was rejecting the premise that any new technology constitutes “progress” except insofar as it causes too many […]