The US government has so far taken a hands-off approach to AI regulation, with the US Congress yet to pass any major legislation regulating the technology.
Legislators have introduced detailing the safe use of AI in October 2023. But to date, the most that the US federal government has to show for its efforts are , which was commissioned by data intelligence company Collibra.
In lieu of federal action, several US states have recently in the US Senate in July that aims to give creators such as artists and musicians control over how AI uses their content.
The large levels of support for new copyright rules and compensation for the use of personal data doesn’t surprise Anthony Cammarano, CTO and vice president of engineering at Protegrity, a data privacy and security provider.
Cammarano, whose company uses AI internally and in its products, believes the US Congress should create both AI and privacy regulations that apply nationwide. AI will make it easier to copy someone else’s ideas or creations without giving credit, he says.
Outside the US, the in progress.
The copyright fights are driven, he says, by uncertainty over AI will live up to its potential.
“If it does, it’s safe to say that the way we create in society is going to fundamentally change, and the tools and the sources of creation are going to evolve as well,” he adds. “It’s super important that we give credit to the people who have created and whose shoulders that large language models or other generative networks are standing on.”
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