Cameron F. Kerry

Aug 29, 2024 | brookings.edu | Cameron F. Kerry

In the “AI summer” of recent years, centers of artificial intelligence (AI) policymaking have blossomed around the globe as governments, international organizations, and other groups seek to realize the technology’s promise while identifying and mitigating its accompanying risks.

Jul 10, 2024 | brookings.edu | Jack Malamud |Cameron F. Kerry |Mark MacCarthy |Katharine Meyer

On June 28, the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) handed down its decision in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo, ending four decades of “Chevron deference” and imperiling the regulatory state as we know it. The doctrine in question is the result of Chevron U.S.A. v. NRDC (1984), in which the Court held that, where statutory ambiguities exist, federal judges must generally defer to the interpretation of regulating agencies.

Mar 27, 2024 | brookings.edu | Cameron F. Kerry

I have worked to project optimism about passage of comprehensive federal privacy legislation in the United States. In fact, when it appeared in 2019 that U.S. Senate negotiators were at an impasse, I copped to being “ridiculously optimistic” for saying I saw a path to legislation. I was projecting scenarios of the possible. I was aware of continuing discussions—legislators continuing to invest staff time, talking with each other and with stakeholders to explore solutions.

Mar 11, 2024 | brookings.edu | Cameron F. Kerry

Technical standards can be easy to overlook. They are arcane, granular, and full of jargon. But as the world grapples with the risks and opportunities of artificial intelligence (AI) and other emerging technologies, mastering these details will be essential.

Feb 26, 2024 | brookings.edu | Cameron F. Kerry |Joshua P. Meltzer |Andrea Renda |Andrew Wyckoff

The emergence of OpenAI’s ChatGPT in 2022, followed by several other generative artificial intelligence (AI) models, created unprecedented urgency for guardrails around AI. In the year since, a call for a pause on training these large-scale AI models and predictions that powerful AI could cause human extinction or a future without work sparked a rush of proposals for some form of global governance framework.