CAIDP Statements

Recent Statements

CAIDP Statement to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, The Federal Government in the Age of Artificial Intelligence (June 5, 2025)

CAIDP to the California Privacy Protection Agency, Regulation of Automated Decisionmaking (June 2, 2025)

CAIDP to the National Association of Attorneys General, Oppose Preemption of State AI Regulation and Enforcement (May 13, 2025).

CAIDP to the Office of Science and Technology Policy, "Recommendations for National AI Plan" (March 15, 2025)

CAIDP, India Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology,  AI Governance (February 28, 2025)

CAIDP and Transparency Coalition, California Assembly, "AB 222 - Data centers: energy usage reporting and modeling" (February 26, 2025)

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

 

 

CAIDP has launched a global campaign for the Council of Europe Framework Convention on Artificial Intelligence, Human Rights, Democracy, and the Rule.

 

Dozens of AI experts affiliated with CAIDP have supported the campaign.

CAIDP has sent public statements urging signature and ratification to:

 

Learn more about the International AI Treaty

 

CAIDP Statement on AI and Warfare (Dec. 10, 2023)

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 ICO on Generative AI Models (June 10, 2024)

CAIDP Statement to ICO on Purpose Limitation (April 12, 2024)

CAIDP Statement to UK ICO on Generative AI - Lawful Basis for Web Scraping to Train Gen AI Models (March 1, 2024)

CAIDP Statement to Senate Committee on Finance on "AI and Healthcare: Promise and Pitfalls" (February 14, 2025)

CAIDP Comments to OMB on "Responsible Procurement of Artificial Intelligence in Government" (April 29, 2024)

CAIDP Statement to the Senate Commerce Committee on FTC, AI and the CAIDP OpenAI CimComplaint (Sept. 27, 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]

CAIDP Statement on OAS Updated Principles on Privacy and Personal Data Protection (May 10, 2021) [in English] [in Spanish]

CAIDP Statement to African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights regarding Resolution 473 (Apr. 5, 2021)

CAIDP Statement to Government of Colombia on Intersectoral Commission for AI (April 5, 2021) [in English] [in Spanish]

CAIDP Statement to House Armed Services Committee regarding US AI Policy (Mar. 25, 2021)

 

CAIDP Statement to G20 Digital Economy Task Force (Mar. 17, 2021)

CAIDP Statement on "External Dimensions of AI" for European Parliament (Mar. 1, 2021). 

CAIDP Statement on draft, final report of US National Security Commission on AI (Feb. 26, 2021). 

CAIDP Endorses Statement The EU AI Act Must Protect People on the Move (Dec. 6, 2022)

 

CAIDP Statement on Ukraine (March 1, 2022)

(33 countries and Hong Kong as of March 4, 2022)

 

[Open for endorsement]

CAIDP Statement in support of European Citizen Initiative to Ban Biometric Mass Surveillance (Mar. 3, 2021)

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