The rise of artificial intelligence is poised to be the great technological revolution of the early 21st century. At the IAPP Global Privacy Summit 2023, stakeholders, including practitioners, privacy advocates and government regulators, exchanged ideas to better understand AI's technological potentials, best practices for governance, privacy risks and possible iterations of future government regulation. Given the rapid development of AI technologies in a space where existing laws around the w... Read More

This probably has something to do with survival instincts and evolution, but humans really love to focus on risks. In today’s world, when so much attention is given to artificial intelligence, the risks associated with this technology seem especially hyped. Sure, we humans have got our fingers caught many times with new technologies, but the level of anxiety around the risks of AI is getting to science fiction movie levels. Some recent policy and regulatory reactions to AI have gone as far as ... Read More

There's no doubt the rapid growth of generative artificial intelligence and large language systems like ChatGPT is getting the attention of the privacy profession and taking the business world by storm. During her keynote address at the IAPP Global Privacy Summit 2023 in Washington, D.C., author and generative AI expert Nina Schick demonstrated the eye-opening growth of ChatGPT, pointing out it only took five days for it to reach 1 million users and two months to reach 100 million users. This g... Read More

Artificial intelligence applications, such as language translation, voice recognition and text prediction apps, typically require large-scale data sets to train high-performance machine learning models such as deep neural networks. There can be challenges when the data needed to train the model is personal or proprietary. How can ML algorithms be trained on multiple data sets when, potentially, those data sets cannot be shared? With its capability to train algorithms on various data sets without... Read More

Chatbots are now all the rage. They have been the subject of numerous investigative news pieces and countless Twitter posts, and multiple companies are investing billions of dollars to further develop the technology. We have only reached the tip of the iceberg, but chatbots and other generative artificial intelligence tools are here to stay, and they will inevitably revolutionize how we interact with technology and with each other. Though AI and machine learning are nothing new, generative AI i... Read More

It may not be a viral dance move yet, but the latest hot trend in tech circles is to call for a slowdown on artificial intelligence development. This week, an open letter from the "longtermist" Future of Life Institute called for a six-month pause on the development of AI systems such as large language models due to concerns around the evolution of “human-competitive intelligence” that could bring about a plethora of societal harms. Scholars agree that caution in the development of advanced alg... Read More

Chinese company Sangfor Technologies has drawn scrutiny for its AI program that can predict if an employee is about to leave their job, South China Morning Post reports. The program can spy on an employee’s browsing activity, such as viewing job posts and sending application emails. The program came to light after a user on Maimai.cn, a professional networking application, claimed he was fired when his company discovered, using a monitoring system, he was applying to other jobs.Full Story... Read More

A new report from Pew Research Center and Elon University’s Imagining the Internet Center found 68% of responding developers, business and policy leaders, researchers and activists do not believe ethical principles focused on public good will be employed in most AI designs by 2030. The report includes written explanations from professionals, including Google’s Chief Internet Evangelist Vint Cerf, who said, “There will be a good-faith effort, but I am skeptical that the good intentions will neces... Read More

There's no doubt the rapid growth of generative artificial intelligence and large language systems like ChatGPT is getting the attention of the privacy profession and taking the business world by storm. During her keynote address at the IAPP Global Privacy Summit 2023 in Washington, D.C., author and generative AI expert Nina Schick demonstrated the eye-opening growth of ChatGPT, pointing out it only took five days for it to reach 1 million users and two months to reach 100 million users. This g... Read More

The U.K. Department for Science, Innovation and Technology published a white paper with its approach to regulating artificial intelligence technologies. The regulatory framework seeks to "build public trust in cutting-edge technologies and make it easier for businesses to innovate, grow and create jobs." The approach consists of five AI principles: safety, transparency, fairness, accountability and governance, and redress. U.K. regulators will roll out guidance within the next 12 months to help ... Read More

Europol published a report warning about the exploitation of OpenAI's ChatGPT and other generative artificial intelligence systems by cybercriminals, Euractiv reports. "While all of the information ChatGPT provides is freely available on the internet, the possibility to use the model to provide specific steps by asking contextual questions means it is significantly easier for malicious actors to better understand and subsequently carry out various types of crime," the report said.Full Story... Read More

The proposed Artificial Intelligence Act would be the first horizontal regulation of AI in the world, but, as always, the devil is in the details. Though the Council of the European Union has nearly completed its version, the European Parliament is still negotiating its version. IAPP Editorial Director Jedidiah Bracy, CIPP, looks at how other EU lawmakers and stakeholders are crafting this massive, precedent-setting legislation.Full Story The Privacy Advisor Podcast: MEP Tudorache unpacks think... Read More

The development of machine learning and artificial intelligence has gone into overdrive in recent years. Now governments around the world at both federal and local levels are attempting to get out ahead of what may come from the exponential growth of AI’s potential to fundamentally change the digital world. During the IAPP Privacy. Security. Risk 2022 conference, Uber Privacy and Security Public Policy Lead Shani Rosenstock facilitated a panel discussion about the number of the existing and po... Read More

The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy published "Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights," which provides design, development and deployment guidelines for artificial intelligence technologies. Data privacy, algorithmic discrimination protections and user choice principles are among the OTSP's "five common sense protections to which everyone in America should be entitled." The OTSP said the blueprint is "a vision for a society" and its AI use focuses on protections from the onset, i... Read More

The Centre for European Policy Studies published a research paper on the proposed EU Artificial Intelligence Act. The authors said an agreement could be struck by mid-2023, but it may hinge on the ability of co-legislators to "converge on key issues such as the definition of AI, the risk classification and associated regulatory remedies, governance arrangements and enforcement rules.” The paper presents eight major recommendations to avoid overlapping regulations if the AI Act passes, including ... Read More

In April last year, the European Commission published its ambitious proposal to regulate Artificial Intelligence. The regulation was meant to be the first of its kind, but the progress has been slow so far due to the file's technical, political and juridical complexity. Meanwhile, the EU lost its first-mover advantage as other jurisdictions like China and Brazil have managed to pass their legislation first. As the proposal is entering a crucial year, it is high time to take stock of the state o... Read More

From Facebook's recent decision to rename itself "Meta" to Epic Games' billion-dollar investment in metaverse technologies, the metaverse has dominated the news and will likely continue to do so over the next several years. To date, there is no universally accepted definition for the term "metaverse" and, for many, it suggests a new but undeveloped future of the internet. According to J.P. Morgan, the metaverse is a seamless convergence of our physical and digital lives, creating a unified, virt... Read More

Data privacy is one of the leading concerns for businesses to ensure confidentiality and preserve trust. Over the last few decades, the digital footprints of our society have shown exceptional growth. But, this digital revolution is striking hard over privacy concerns of individuals.  According to Pew Research, 81% of Americans report the potential risk of data collected by companies overshadowing the benefits they receive from those businesses.  Challenges in executing privacy compliance for ... Read More

Clearview AI has begun allowing public defenders to access its facial recognition database of more than 20 billion facial images, The New York Times reports. The access helped a Florida man prove his innocence against accusations of vehicular homicide. Clearview AI's technology was previously limited to law enforcement, but CEO Hoan Ton-That said public defender access would help "balance the scales of justice." Legal Aid Society's Jerome Greco said the new access is merely an attempt "to push b... Read More

The Ukrainian military’s use of Clearview AI facial recognition to identify dead Russian soldiers may carry negative consequences, warned military technology analysts, The Washington Post reports. Ukraine reported using Clearview AI to scan the faces of more than 8,600 Russian soldiers killed in the invasion. The families of 582 soldiers were directly contacted to inform them of family member deaths, with some outreach including an image of the dead soldier. Some military analysts were concerned... Read More