AAAIP Director Comments on Recent Efforts to Regulate AI Training Data in U.S. and Europe
In an article for Cybernews, Dr. Ekbia commented on a recent announcement that confirmed Meta uses Facebook and Instagram users’ posts to train its AI models. He notes that attempts to regulate how companies incorporate user data into their AI models have faced powerful opposition across the United States.
AAAIP Gives Testimony in Strong Support of Massachusetts Bill Targeting AI Election Interference
If passed, bill S.2730 would ban the distribution of deceptive or fraudulent synthetic media messages which depict a candidate or political party set to appear on the state or local ballot within 90 days of an election. This week, Dr. Hamid Ekbia traveled to Massachusetts to provide testimony supporting the bill on behalf of AAAIP.
European Union Passes Landmark Artificial Intelligent Act. Dr. Hamid Ekbia Speaks on What it Means for the Global State of AI Regulation.
These regulations come as the U.S. Congress remains in the early stages of the process to set appropriate guardrails. According to Dr. Ekbia, director of the Autonomous Systems Policy Institute at Syracuse University and the leader of the Academic Alliance for AI Policy, the EU law “is certain to put pressure on other countries, especially the U.S., to come up with their own regulations. The question is, what type of regulation? Big players are going to put pressure on the Congress to ‘compensate’ for the EU’s constraint in the name of ‘innovation.’”