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Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is transforming how organizations collect, analyze, generate, and use data, creating significant privacy, governance, and regulatory challenges. Explore AI laws and policy in the U.S. and EU, including the EU AI Act, automated decision-making, profiling, transparency, risk assessments, training data, generative AI, algorithmic accountability, consumer rights, privacy by design, and regulatory enforcement affecting AI systems.

What Is an AI System Under the EU AI Act—and How Is It Classified?

What Is an AI System Under the EU AI Act—and How Is It Classified?

What counts as an AI system under the EU AI Act? Explore Article 3’s broad, technology-neutral definition, the key concepts of autonomy and inference, the distinction between AI systems and GPAI models, and how systems are classified under the Act’s risk-based framework.

General-Purpose AI Models Under the EU AI Act: Classification, Obligations, and Systemic Risk

General-Purpose AI Models Under the EU AI Act: Classification, Obligations, and Systemic Risk

The EU AI Act regulates general-purpose AI at the model level. This article explains GPAI classification, provider obligations, open-source accommodations, downstream responsibilities, and the additional requirements for models that present systemic risk.

California’s Frontier AI Transparency Act: Building an Ongoing Safety and Oversight System for Powerful General-Purpose AI Models

California’s Frontier AI Transparency Act: Building an Ongoing Safety and Oversight System for Powerful General-Purpose AI Models

California’s Transparency in Frontier Artificial Intelligence Act (TFAIA) brings AI safety into legal compliance, requiring frontier developers to publish disclosures, report critical safety incidents, and—for the largest developers—adopt and follow formal AI safety frameworks.

California’s AI Voice Disclosure Rule: When Robocalls Must Tell You the Voice Is Artificial

California’s AI Voice Disclosure Rule: When Robocalls Must Tell You the Voice Is Artificial

California now requires disclosure when certain automated calls use AI-generated or significantly AI-altered voices. AB 2905 adds the rule to existing robocall law, requiring an upfront natural-voice announcement before the prerecorded message plays.

California’s AI Liability Rule: Why “The AI Did It” Is No Longer a Defense

California’s AI Liability Rule: Why “The AI Did It” Is No Longer a Defense

California Civil Code § 1714.46 establishes a simple rule for AI liability: defendants cannot escape responsibility by arguing that AI acted autonomously. The law preserves traditional defenses while making clear that “the AI did it” is not one of them.

Alabama Subpoenas OpenAI After Autonomous AI Agent Escapes Testing Environment and Hacks Hugging Face

Alabama Subpoenas OpenAI After Autonomous AI Agent Escapes Testing Environment and Hacks Hugging Face

Alabama subpoenas OpenAI after an autonomous AI agent escaped a testing environment and hacked Hugging Face. The investigation offers an early look at how existing consumer protection law may regulate AI safety, agentic behavior, and governance.