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Oct 7, 2024 | 
jdsupra.com | Marc Martin |Marc Martín
[co-author: Sydney Veatch]In the last 30 days, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed 17 artificial intelligence (AI) bills and vetoed AI safety bill SB 1047. One of the AI-related bills signed into law, AB 2013 “Generative Artificial Intelligence: Training Data Transparency,” imposes new disclosure requirements on the developers of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) systems and services that are made available to Californians.
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Oct 7, 2024 | 
jdsupra.com | Marc Martin |Marc Martín |David Robbins
[co-author: Dania Assas]Governor Gavin Newsom has vetoed SB 1047, the Safe and Secure Innovation for Frontier Artificial Intelligence Models Act, marking a significant development in California’s approach to AI regulation. Both the tech industry and policymakers had closely watched the bill due to its potential impact on the development and deployment of frontier AI models.
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Aug 7, 2024 | 
jdsupra.com | Meeka Bondy |Ashley Nicole Connelly |Marc Martin |Marc Martín
This presidential election season has heightened concerns about the use of artificial intelligence (AI)-generated content in political ads to mislead voters. With this concern in mind, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has proposed rules to mandate disclosure of AI-generated content in political advertisements on media platforms subject to FCC jurisdiction.
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Aug 1, 2024 | 
jdsupra.com | Ashley Nicole Connelly |Samuel Klein |Marc Martin |Marc Martín
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit recently ruled in a closely divided 9-7 en banc decision that the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) method of funding the Universal Service Fund (USF) is an unconstitutional tax. The ruling upends decades of bipartisan federal policy that enables the USF to collect billions and subsidize communications services to low-income households, high-cost areas, rural healthcare, and schools and libraries.
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May 23, 2024 | 
jdsupra.com | Sean Belding |Samuel Klein |Marc Martin |Marc Martín
The European Union seized the early global lead in regulating artificial intelligence (AI) by passing its AI Act on March 13, 2024, following a lengthy legislative process.[1] Meanwhile, across the Atlantic, the U.S. Congress has made noise about the need for federal AI legislation, but progress has been slow. The absence of a similarly comprehensive federal law from Congress has created a vacuum that is now being filled by individual states.
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Apr 11, 2024 | 
jdsupra.com | Ashley Nicole Connelly |Marc Martin |Marc Martín |Brandon Thompson
With the recent circulation of the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) draft version of its highly anticipated net neutrality order, Promoting a Fast, Open, and Fair Internet (the 2024 Order), Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel is making good on her promise to reinstate the net neutrality rules first adopted in 2015 during the Obama administration (the 2015 Order) and repealed in 2017 during the Trump administration (the 2017 Order).
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Feb 21, 2024 | 
lexblog.com | Marc Martin |Marc Martín |Brandon Thompson |Marc Martin |Marc Martín |Brandon Thompson
Artificial Intelligence (AI)-generated robocalls may trick some consumers into thinking they are being called by a human being, but the Federal Communications Commission clarified in a recent AI Declaratory Ruling that it will not be fooled. Moving forward, all AI-generated robocalls will be treated as artificial or prerecorded voice calls for purposes of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) and will require a called party’s prior express consent.
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Feb 16, 2024 | 
jdsupra.com | Marc Martin |Marc Martín |Brandon Thompson
Artificial Intelligence (AI)-generated robocalls may trick some consumers into thinking they are being called by a human being, but the Federal Communications Commission clarified in a recent AI Declaratory Ruling that it will not be fooled. Moving forward, all AI-generated robocalls will be treated as artificial or prerecorded voice calls for purposes of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) and will require a called party’s prior express consent.
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Nov 1, 2023 | 
lexblog.com | Marc Martin |Marc Martín |Samuel Klein
Perkins Coie presented at Digital Hollywood’s “AI Bill of Rights, Ethics & the Law” Summit, a one-day virtual conference that seeks to advance the conversation around the establishment of a national regulatory policy for artificial intelligence (AI). The October 19 event highlighted the tension between efforts to unleash a once-in-a-generation burst of innovation, while simultaneously safeguarding against the dangers and risk inherent in complex and still developing technologies.
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Oct 26, 2023 | 
jdsupra.com | Ashley Nicole Connelly |Brandon Johnson |Marc Martin |Marc Martín
The Federal Communications Commission recently adopted a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) to reestablish its authority over broadband internet access service (BIAS) by reinstating its net neutrality rules. The NPRM largely follows the framework set out in an order adopted by the FCC in 2015 during the Obama administration (the 2015 Order), which was repealed by the FCC in 2017 during the Trump administration (the 2017 Order).
