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DoD Cyber: A Conversation with Melissa Vice, COO for DoD’s Vulnerability Disclosure Program
Cybersecurity and Data Privacy Year in Review: Major Breaches, Changes in the Law, and Upcoming Trends
The Government Contracts Cyber Café: Recent Developments Update
How to Respond to President Obama's Cybersecurity Executive Order
Recently, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) released its second public draft of Digital Identity Guidelines (Draft Guidelines). The Draft Guidelines focus on online identity verification, but several...more
The U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (“NIST”) recently announced the publication of three AI guidelines as well as its release of a software package aimed at helping organizations...more
On July 26, 2024, the National Institute for Standards and Technology (“NIST”), part of the Department of Commerce, released guidelines, a global engagement plan, and software covering various aspects of AI technology...more
Welcome to the June edition of Akin Intelligence. This month, the General Services Administration (GSA) launched its first AI-focused cohort of Presidential Innovation Fellows (PIF), bringing together experts from across the...more
...As the world grapples with the rapid advancement of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies, concerns about the potential risks and unintended consequences have understandably taken center stage. While some advocate for...more
With the EU's AI Act coming into force imminently, those designing, developing, and/or deploying AI will need to start getting to grips with the myriad of new obligations, including new cyber security requirements....more
A year ago, we highlighted the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s ("NIST") release of a framework designed to address AI risks (the “AI RMF”). We noted how it is abstract, like its central subject, and is...more
On May 15, 2024, the Senate AI Working Group—Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Sens. Mike Rounds (R-SD), Todd Young (R-IN), and Martin Heinrich (D-NM)—issued their long-anticipated Roadmap for Artificial...more
As the development and use of AI continues to grow, the potential for security and safety incidents harming organizations and the public increases. Updated reporting and tracking processes for AI security and safety incidents...more
MIT Report Details New Cybersecurity Risks - “Cloud misconfigurations, more sophisticated ransomware, and vendor exploitation attacks are contributing to rising cyberattacks.” Why this is important: Worldwide spending...more
We have now reached the 180-day mark since the White House Executive Order (EO) on the Safe, Secure and Trustworthy Development of AI and we are seeing a flurry of mandated actions being completed. See here for a summary of...more
Trade secrets have become a de facto intellectual property right for securing valuable artificial intelligence information. Despite regulatory trends toward greater transparency of AI models, federal policy acknowledges,...more
On February 7, 2024, California State Senator Scott Wiener introduced SB 1047, which is titled the “Safe and Secure Innovation for Frontier Artificial Intelligence Systems Act.” The bill is designed to impose additional due...more
President Biden’s recent Executive Order on Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence: Establishes a federal government-wide effort to mitigate risks of improper AI development and use. ...more
It has been one year since OpenAI released ChatGPT, arguably catalyzing today’s new wave of interest in AI. This surge of interest is driving substantial investments in AI technologies and a heightened urgency to address the...more
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the UK National Cyber Security Centre (UK NCSC), along with partner agencies from 17 nations, have released Guidelines for Secure AI System Development (the...more
On October 30, 2023, the Biden administration released a far-reaching executive order (EO) on the Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI). The EO issues directives related to the use...more
November has been a busy month in artificial intelligence on the international, federal, and state levels. The last several weeks have seen what is probably an unprecedented amount of activity regarding artificial...more
Over the past several months, federal lawmakers have continued exploring regulation of artificial intelligence (AI) through hearings and legislative proposals. Amidst many other Congressional priorities, legislators seem set...more
On October 30, 2023, the Biden administration issued a sweeping Executive Order on the Safe, Secure and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence (the “Executive Order”), which ambitiously directs the...more
On October 30, 2023, President Biden issued an expansive Executive Order (EO) on the Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI), aiming to establish standards for AI technology to...more
Seyfarth synopsis: President Biden’s Executive Order on artificial intelligence sets forth his vision for America to continue leading in AI innovation while also addressing risks associated with the use of AI. While much of...more
Welcome to the October edition of Akin Intelligence. We continue to see bipartisan and international interest in artificial intelligence (AI) regulation. In the executive branch, agencies are working towards developing...more
The Biden administration announced that it brokered a voluntary agreement with several of the biggest technology and artificial intelligence (AI) companies. The agreement, available here, has the companies taking a number of...more
Welcome back to Akin Intelligence: Hot AI Summer Edition! This month’s newsletter reflects the ongoing and increasing global activity around artificial intelligence (AI), including more proposed AI legislation and court...more