Aside from a few criminal cases involving national technology secrets, trade secret lawsuits, by their nature, don’t often grab headlines. Mostly they involve unremarkable factual and legal issues involving misappropriation of company proprietary information.
Not so the case of Brainwave v. Arshee, where the facts and bold allegations by some of the parties offer…

The European Commission’s proposed new regulations for artificial intelligence (AI) technologies and systems (link to PDF here; issued April 21, 2021) include enforcement provisions that would empower public authorities to monitor regulated AI entities operating in the European Union (EU) and seek stiff fines from those that do not comply with the rules. The…

The European Commission cast a wide regulatory net over artificial intelligence (AI) technologies and practices last month when it proposed new rules for AI on April 21, 2021 (link to PDF here). Similar to how the AI technologies the rules are intended to regulate solve problems, assessing whether the Regulations apply to a particular…

If the EU Commission’s newly proposed harmonized rules on Artificial Intelligence (the “Artificial Intelligence Act”) (published April 21, 2021) are adopted, U.S.-based AI companies operating in European Union countries (or expecting to do so) may soon be subject to significant new regulatory requirements. The proposed regulations, with few exceptions, would apply to companies or individuals…

In this peer-reviewed article (Journal of Science and Law; open source), my co-author and I discuss how access to data is an essential part of artificial intelligence (AI) technology development efforts. But government and corporate actors have increasingly imposed localized and hyper-localized restrictions on data due to rising mistrust—the fear and uncertainty about…

The nation’s consumer protection watchdog–the Federal Trade Commission (FTC)–took extraordinary law enforcement measures on January 11, 2021, after finding an artificial intelligence company had deceived customers about its data collection and use practices.
In a first of its kind settlement involving facial recognition surveillance systems, the FTC ordered Everalbum, Inc., the now shuttered maker of…

It didn’t take long for someone to turn generative adversarial networks (GAN)–a machine learning technique that at first blush seemed benign and of somewhat limited utility at its unveiling–into a tool with the ability to cause real harm.  Now, Congress has stepped up and passed legislation to focus the federal government’s attention on the…

It didn’t take long for someone to turn generative adversarial networks (GAN)–a machine learning technique that at first blush seemed benign and of somewhat limited utility at its unveiling–into a tool with the ability to cause real harm.  Now, Congress has stepped up and passed legislation to focus the federal government’s attention on the…

The year 2020 may be remembered for its pandemic and presidential election. But it also marked a turning point in efforts to regulate artificial intelligence (AI) technologies and the systems that embody them. State lawmakers in two states joined Illinois in enacting laws directed at AI-generated biometric data, and federal lawmakers introduced their own measure. …

The year 2020 may be remembered for many things, including a pernicious pandemic and contentious presidential election. But it also marked a turning point in efforts to regulate artificial intelligence (AI) technologies and the systems that embody them. Still, the AI legal landscape remains uncertain, and for stakeholders who develop and use AI systems and…

As national protests over systemic and structural racism in America continue, community organizers, Black scholars, and others fighting injustice and unequal treatment are once again raising awareness of a long-standing problem lurking within artificial intelligence data-based technologies: bias.
The campaign to root out bias–or eliminate biased systems altogether–has been amplified in recent weeks in the…

As national protests over systemic and structural racism in America continue, community organizers, Black scholars, and others fighting injustice and unequal treatment are once again raising awareness of a long-standing problem lurking within artificial intelligence data-based technologies: bias.
The campaign to root out bias–or eliminate biased systems altogether–has been amplified in recent weeks in the…

As national protests over systemic and structural racism in America continue, community organizers, Black scholars, and others fighting injustice and unequal treatment are once again raising awareness of a long-standing problem lurking within artificial intelligence data-based technologies: bias.
The campaign to root out bias–or eliminate biased systems altogether–has been amplified in recent weeks in the…