Tech Policy Press

📢 Happy Monday! We are excited to share the first few articles from our series this week, "US State Tech Policy in 2025." 🎙️ “What to Watch on US State Tech Policy in 2025” - A conversation with Keir Lamont, Caitriona Fitzgerald, and Scott Babwah Brennen.  https://lnkd.in/e-_kk3FG 🗞️ “Status of State Laws on Facial Recognition Surveillance: Continued Progress and Smart Innovations” - Facial recognition stands out as an AI technology that is already broadly deployed and presents unique dangers to civil rights, writes Jake Laperruque. https://lnkd.in/ectAMA7b 🗞️ “A New Model for State Privacy Legislation” - Caitriona Fitzgerald and Matthew Schwartz discuss their model privacy bill, the State Data Privacy Act, that builds upon several existing state laws. https://lnkd.in/emqYJmwx 🗞️ “California’s Surveillance Systems Have Once Again Become a Major Liability” - With President-elect Donald Trump about to reassume office, the very systems that officials promised would keep us safe have become a major liability, write Nicole Ozer and Matt Cagle. https://lnkd.in/e7kg8TqV Stay tuned. We have several more from the series coming out the rest of the week. #TechPolicy #DigitalPrivacy #StateLaw #CivilRights #PublicPolicy

Catch up on what happened in US tech policy in December with a roundup from Freedman Consulting, LLC’s J.J. Tolentino and Rachel Lau and Tech Policy Press’s Benjamin Lennett and Prithvi Iyer, including coverage of the #Congress and #AI, the #FTC and #DOJ’s actions to protect privacy, and significant decisions by the courts on #TikTok, and net neutrality.

The unchecked rise of AI in politics risks plunging the "Mad Men" of advertising into full-blown madness, writes Asma Sifaoui. The question isn’t whether regulation slows innovation—it’s whether pursuing innovation without accountability leaves democracy behind. https://lnkd.in/em_YiT_x

I've deeply loved music for most of my life, and and I want to see a future both artists and AI music can flourish. Here's my attempt to guide advocacy in that direction.

Dr. Ruha Benjamin: "In my view, the AI that we should be investing more in is not 'artificial,' it's 'ancestral' intelligence. It's the collective know-how, the wisdom that has been cut off from us in part because of who it's associated with." Listen/read: https://lnkd.in/ezFhHMnf

My statement on the Bipartisan House Task Force Report on AI on Tech Policy Press for the AI Now Institute. In one breath the House report cautions against the material risks posed by large-scale AI, and in the other encourages widespread adoption and acceleration of AI across the economy. In the past *five days alone* we’ve seen the NDAA authorize dozens of troubling AI provisions and heard the Biden Administration tease fast-tracking data center construction for AI—one report shouldn’t shift our attention away from these developments. 

On December 17, the bipartisan US House Task Force on Artificial Intelligence released its comprehensive 273-page report and key findings. Tech Policy Press collected comments from a range of experts and organizations. 

Grateful to have collaborated with our amazing team at Aapti Institute on this piece, which breaks down the complex and vital topic of AI safety—especially as 2025 shapes up to be a pivotal year for AI regulatory discussions in India. Supratik Mitra Rattanmeek Kaur Soujanya Sridharan Vinay Narayan Sarayu Natarajan

“LLMs exhibit patterns of social identity bias, similarly to humans," a new study says. Prithvi Iyer considers the findings. Tiancheng Hu Yara Kyrychenko Steve Rathje Nigel Collier Sander van der Linden John Rohsenbeek

Mallory Knodel says the #FBI must change its stance so we can move forward to protect communications with ubiquitous, strong #encryption. But officials are signaling that, despite recent events and seemingly conflicting signals from other agencies, their position is unchanged.