Frontier AI Goes Federal: How the Great American AI Act Compares to State Laws
Introduction It has been an unusually active few weeks for AI safety policy. Following a new frontier model safety bill passed in Illinois, and a White House executive order on AI security, Rep. Jay Obernolte (R-CA) and Rep. Lori Trahan (D-MA) released a bipartisan discussion draft for the Great American AI Act of 2026, […]
SB 5 in Five: What to Know About Connecticut’s New AI Law
[…] across several fast-moving areas of AI policy, including companion chatbots, automated employment decision tools (AEDTs), social media, and provenance data. The law also includes provisions related to frontier AI whistleblower protections, AI-related layoff notices, and planning for a state AI regulatory sandbox, making it one of the broader state AI packages enacted this year. […]
Student-Data-Privacy-Scenarios
[…] A., Kinney, K., Brandt, T.J., Cecil, R.E., Himes, P.R., Cashon, C., Hopp, R.M.P. & Ross, E. (2022). Racial, skin tone, and sex disparities in automated proctoring software. Frontiers in Education. https://doi.org/10.3389/feduc.2022.881449 > Zeide, E. (2023). Big proctor: Online proctoring problems and how FERPA can promote stud ent data due process. Notre Dame Journal on […]
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FPF_Voices-for-Higher-Education
[…] Lynne D. Roberts, Joel A. Howell, Kristen Seaman, and David C. Gibson, Student Attitudes toward Learning Analytics in Higher Education: “The Fitbit Version of the Learning World,” Frontiers in Psychology (2016), https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01959 . 53 Carrie Klein et al., Student Sensemaking of Learning Analytics Dashboard Interventions in Higher Education , Journal of Educational Technology Systems (2019), 48 […]
FPF_Renn-Research-BriefR_R3-1
[…] ‘Digital Traces’ to Help Students. The University of Arizona News. (March 7, 2018). https://news.arizona.edu/story/researcher-looks-digital-traces-help-students. Borgman, C. L. Open Data, Grey Data, and Stewardship: Universities at the Privacy Frontier. Berkeley Technology Law Journal (2018) 33 (2): 365-412. https://doi.org/10.15779/Z38B56D489. Botnevik S., Khalil M., and Wasson B. Student Awareness and Privacy Perception of Learning Analytics in Higher […]
FPF-Student-Privacy-Communications-Toolkit-For-Schools-and-Districts
[…] understand the need to protect student privacy and act accordingly. Building a culture of privacy requires JANUARY 2021 11 • ISTE: Standards for Students 22 • Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF): Surveillance Self-Defense: Privacy for Students 23 • Canadian Civil Liberties Association (CCLA): Peer Privacy Protector Project (PPPP) 24 To learn more about student privacy, […]
More Parties, More Risks, More Opportunity? Evolving Governance to Support Cyber Resilience Amidst Evolving Policy and Technological Change
[…] an overview of almost a dozen AI risk management frameworks that sit “at the intersection of traditional risk management and AI safety” (with a particular emphasis on frontier, general-purpose, or “high-risk” AI systems). The MIT initiative could serve as a starting point for companies who want to ground their AI risk-management in proven safety […]
Incentives or Obligations? The U.S. Regulatory Approach to Voluntary AI Governance Standards
[…] the same frameworks carries different legal weight and protection. The Proposed Laws and Their Application: Pending legislation across multiple states is building on these existing models, with frontier model bills expanding California’s approach, liability bills adopting Texas-style safe harbors, and ADMT bills blending Colorado’s hybrid of mandates and affirmative defenses. The Real Effect on […]
From Proposal to Passage: Enacted U.S. AI Laws, 2023–2025
[…] the Chart here These enacted laws span a wide range of policy areas, reflecting experimentation in regulatory scope among lawmakers. In 2025 alone, states enacted laws addressing frontier model risk (such as California’s SB 53 and New York’s RAISE Act), generative AI transparency, AI use in health care settings, liability standards, data privacy, innovation, […]