CAIDP Statements

The Center for AI and Digital Policy provides recommendations to national governments and international organizations in response to requests for comments and also in situations where the Center believes it is important to highlight important AI policy issues. The CAIDP Statements are closely aligned with CAIDP's work to promote the Public Voice in AI policy.

The Center provided comments on AI policy to the following national governments and international organizations:

The UK Parliament
The US National AI Advisory Committee
The US National Security Commission on AI
The European Parliament
The G20
The US Congress
The Government of Colombia
The African Commission on People and Humans Rights
The European Commission
The Organization of American States
The OECD
The European Commission
The C20
The EU-US Trade and Technology Council
The US AI Task Force
US Office of Management and Budget
UK Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
Council of Europe, Ad Hoc Committee on Artificial Intelligence
The State Internet Infomation Office of China
The US Attorney General
The US Office of Science and Technology Policy
The US National AI Advisory Committee

The Center also expressed support for the following initiatives:

The ReclaimYourFace Campaign
The Athens Roundtable AI Manifesto
Ban Facial Surveillance Technology
The Athens Roundtable AI Manifesto on the Enforcement of Law
Youth Open Letter AI Risks

The Center has also published a statement concerning Ukraine.

Featured Campaigns

Youth Open Letter on AI Risks (April 30, 2023)

We must elevate young voices
We must support and fund research and development that advances safe, human-aligned, trustworthy AI systems.
We must build governance structures to audit AI products and manage risk
We must improve technical literacy in government
We must operationalize existing multilateral frameworks
We must design measures to redress harm caused by AI
We must prevent malicious actors from setting the terms of AI innovation

EU #Protect Not Surveil

Vote to Protect the Human Rights of people on the move and migrants in the Artificial Intelligence Act

The Center is urging support for a ban on Facial Surveillance Technology and other forms of mass biometric identification. The campaign grows out of earlier research for the report AI and Democratic Values, which found that Facial Surveillance Technology is the most controversial application of AI and the most closely associated with the denial of fundamental rights and the rule of law. (Posted October 2022)

Support the Campaign.

Building upon A Manifesto in Defence of Democracy and the Rule of Law, the Transatlantic Reflection Group on Democracy and the Rule of Law has reconvened to draft a second consensus manifesto that shifts focus from the design of law to the enforcement of law.

The Manifesto on Enforcing Law in the Age of AI offers 10 recommendations for addressing the key enforcement challenges. CAIDP strongly supports this initiative. (Posted October 2022)

Read the Manifesto

Sign the Manifesto

CAIDP Statement to the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST), May 14, 2023

CAIDP Statement to US Senate Judiciary Committee on Oversight of A.I.: Rules for Artificial Intelligence (May 11, 2023)

CAIDP Statement to G7 Digital Ministers (April 28, 2023)

[CAIDP reference page on 2023 G7]

CAIDP Renews Call to OMB to Initiate AI Rulemaking (Apr. 24 2023)

CAIDP's Merve Hickok statement on AI Policy before the US Congress, March 8, 2022 - “The U.S. does not have the guardrails in place, the laws that we need, the public education, or the expertise in the government to manage the consequences of these rapid technological changes.” [CAIDP - House Hearing on Advances in AI]