AI Leaders Bring Washington a Bag of Promises
In our final episode earlier than the August break, the Cyberlaw Podcast drills down on the AI business leaders’ journey to Washington, the place they dutifully signed as much as what Gus Hurwitz calls “a bag of guarantees.” Gus and I parse the guarantees, a few of that are empty, others of which have substance. Alongside the best way, we study the EU’s struggling marketing campaign to influence different nations to undertake its AI regulation framework. Actually, guys, should you do not wish to be known as regulatory neocolonialists, possibly you should not go round telling former European colonies to vary their legal guidelines to match yours.
Jeffery Atik picks up the AI baton, unpacking Senate Majority Chief Chuck Schumer’s (D-N.Y.) overhyped set of AI amendments to the Nationwide Protection Authorization Act (NDAA), and panning the declare by authors that AI fashions have been “stealing” their works. Additionally this week, one other endlessly litigated and unjustified declare of high-tech infringement got here to a detailed with the appellate rejection of a declare that linking to a website violates the location’s copyright. We additionally cowl the AI business’s sadly well-founded worry of enabling face recognition and Meta’s uncommon open-source AI technique.
Richard Stiennon pulls the podcast again to the Nationwide Cybersecurity Implementation Plan, which I praised final episode for its disciplined format. Richard introduces me to an Atlantic Council report by which a number of area consultants marked up the textual content. This uncovered flaws not obvious on first learn; it seems that the implementation plan took a number of outstanding dives, resembling omitting all point out of one of many technique’s extra formidable objectives. That is the issue with methods in authorities. They solely imply one thing if the management is keen to observe them.
Gus offers us a regulatory lawyer’s tackle the FCC’s new cybersecurity label for IoT gadgets and on the EPA’s beleaguered rules for water system cybersecurity. He doubts that both program will be grounded in a legislative grant of regulatory jurisdiction. Richard factors out that CISA managed to get new cybersecurity concessions from Microsoft with out even a pretense of regulatory jurisdiction.
Gus offers us a fast evaluation of the newest DOJ/FTC draft merger assessment pointers. He thinks it is a overreach that can tarnish the status and persuasiveness of the rules.
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