On July 21, the White House announced that seven leading AI companies (Amazon, Anthropic, Google, Inflection, Meta, Microsoft, and OpenAI) have agreed to make voluntary commitments around three key areas of their AI systems:...more
The Biden Administration recently released its plans for allocating more than $42.45 billion in broadband funding to all 50 states through the Broadband Equity Access and Deployment ("BEAD") Program. These dollars will be...more
On June 14, 2023, the European Parliament approved amendments to the European Union (EU) Artificial Intelligence Act (AI Act or AIA) ("Parliament Proposal"). The AIA is the EU's primary proposed framework to regulate AI...more
As generative artificial intelligence (GAI) technology, like ChatGPT, finds new and greater uses in the workplace, employers must consider the myriad of legal and other issues that come with it. For good reason, employers...more
6/9/2023
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On May 23, the Biden Administration announced several new initiatives to support the development of a National Artificial Intelligence (AI) Strategy. The initiatives focus on: (1) outlining a plan to increase federal...more
6/1/2023
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Guidance explains the "four-fifths rule" to determine whether tools for hiring and promotion might result in a disparate/adverse impact on a protected class -
Last week, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)...more
Italy's Data Protection Agency (DPA) lifted a temporary ban on ChatGPT's operations in Italy after OpenAI, the purveyor of the generative AI system, agreed to implement a series of changes to its online notices and privacy...more
On April 25, 2023, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), and the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission...more
Taking another step to further regulate foreign participation in the U.S. telecommunications marketplace, on Thursday, April 20, 2023, the Federal Communications Commission ("FCC" or "Commission") adopted an Order and Notice...more
4/27/2023
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On April 11, 2023, the Department of Commerce, through the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), issued a request for comments (RFC) on AI system accountability measures and policies. The “AI...more
On April 6, 2023, the New York City Department of Consumer and Worker Protection ("DCWP") published a Notice of Adoption of Final Rule to implement New York City's recent law mandating bias audits of AI-enabled systems used...more
Regulators, both in the United States and around the globe, are showing greater concern about the potential risks of using generative artificial intelligence (AI) systems for commercial and business purposes. The Federal...more
The California Privacy Protection Agency ("CPPA" or "Agency") is seeking preliminary comments on proposed rulemaking for risk assessments and cybersecurity audits for higher-risk data processing activities, and consumer...more
The FCC Broadband Data Taskforce recently released recommendations on best practices to submit bulk challenges to the Broadband Serviceable Location Fabric (BSL Fabric). The BSL Fabric is a dataset of geographic coordinates...more
On January 26, 2023, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) released the final version of its AI Risk Management Framework (RMF). ...more
The Federal Communications Commission ("FCC" or "Commission") has released its long-awaited Notice of Proposed Rulemaking ("NPRM") proposing to revise data breach reporting requirements for telecommunications carriers and...more
The FCC Broadband Data Task Force announced that the second Broadband Data Collection (BDC) filing window opened on January 3, 2023, and the required data submissions may be made at any time up until the deadline of March 1,...more
In late December, the New York City Department of Consumer and Worker Protection (DCWP or Department) issued revised rules to implement New York City Local Law 144 of 2021, which mandates bias audits of AI-enabled systems...more
The Federal Communications Commission's ("FCC") recent release of the national Broadband Map, which purports to identify all locations in the U.S. where fixed and mobile broadband internet service is available as of June 30,...more
New York City has proposed rules for implementing its new law requiring bias audits of automated employment decision-making tools (AEDTs) used within the city. The proposed rules answer some of the open questions about how...more
The Federal Trade Commission has formally launched a rulemaking proceeding that nominally is focused on consumer privacy issues, but actually raises significant questions about the impact of artificial intelligence/machine...more
New York City has issued the first guidance related to its new "AI audit" law that will require employers and employment agencies to conduct bias audits of automated decision-making technologies used to evaluate job...more
On March 16 and 17, 2022, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) released two documents as part of its effort to establish a voluntary framework for developing trustworthy and responsible artificial...more
New York City has passed the first law in the United States that will require employers to conduct audits of automated decision-making tools used to evaluate job candidates or employees. The law may have huge implications for...more
The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) announced a plan to develop a "bill of rights" to protect against what the OSTP perceives to be potentially harmful consequences of AI, including anticipated and...more