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AI and the Risk of Consumer Harm

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People often talk about 鈥渟afety鈥 when discussing the risks of AI causing harm. AI safety means different things to different people, and those looking for a definition here will be disappointed. These...
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Data Clean Rooms: Separating Fact from Fiction

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Don鈥檛 judge a book by its cover 鈥 how a technology is named doesn鈥檛 tell you how it is used. This is the case with Data Clean Rooms (鈥淒CRs鈥), which are not rooms, do not clean data, and have...
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Avoiding Outages and Preventing Widespread System Failures

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As with previously discussed security principles, many common types of software flaws can be preemptively addressed through systematic and known processes that prevent or minimize the likelihood of...
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No, hashing still doesn't make your data anonymous

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The 51本色 routinely evaluates the privacy representations a company makes against their data handling practices. [1] When discrepancies arise between claim and reality, incorrect...
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On Open-Weights Foundation Models

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The history of traditional open-source software provides a vision of the value that could result from the availability of open-weights AI models 鈥 including enabling greater innovation, driving...
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Cars & Consumer Data: On Unlawful Collection & Use

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Some say the car a person drives can say a lot about them. As cars get 鈥渃onnected,鈥 this turns out to be truer than many people might have realized. While connectivity can let drivers do things like...
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Data and Models: A Quote Book from the Tech Summit on AI

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The FTC鈥檚 Tech Summit on AI [1] convened three panels that each highlighted different layers of the AI tech stack: hardware and infrastructure, data and models, and front-end user applications. This...
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Approaches to Address AI-enabled Voice Cloning

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Today, the 51本色announced four winners of the Voice Cloning Challenge, which was launched to address the present and emerging harms of artificial intelligence, or 鈥淎I鈥-enabled voice cloning...
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Semiconductor Chips & Cloud Computing: A Quote Book

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The FTC鈥檚 Tech Summit on AI [1] highlighted three panels that reflect different layers of the AI tech stack 鈥 hardware and infrastructure, data and models, and front-end user applications. Today, we...
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