HUB NEWS

In late December, the Hub published two working papers. The first publication, “A Content Analysis of National Data Strategies,” is available on the Hub website. Thomas Struett, Hub Director of Research, examines who policymakers are writing these strategies for and whether they address human rights questions. The second publication, “For the People, but not by the People,’ will be published by CIGI in February/March. It examines public participation in AI strategies. We did not find a model of deliberative democratic decision-making. As of October 2022, some 43 of our 69-nation sample had an AI strategy, but only 18 attempted to engage their citizens in the strategy’s development. Moreover, only 13 of these nations issued an open invitation for public comment, and 4 provided evidence that these comments influenced the final text. Policymakers are missing an opportunity to build trust in AI by not using this process to involve a broader cross-section of their constituents.

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DATA

US AI Infrastructure Analysis.
The National Secure Data Service aims to provide a transparent and consolidated data infrastructure to share, combine and use government data for cross-agency research. The CHIPS Act tasks the NSF with setting up a prototype for the service and to determine whether it might be scaled more broadly.
AP reports surveillance has been “normalized” since COVID-19.
The US Government pays data brokers to verify log-ins, and the data brokers are not only paid for this task but they also can reuse/sell the data.
Data voids and disinformation by Data and Society.
The U.K.'s Central Digital and Data Office and Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation developed the Algorithmic Transparency Recording Standard Hub. The hub includes the Algorithmic Transparency Recording Standard, guidance on its use and published algorithmic transparency reports.
In an Op-Ed for the WSJ, US President Biden called for regulation of big tech and federal privacy legislation.
On Feb. 8, the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) will adopt Privacy by Design as ISO 31700.
Council of Europe AI Treaty and Role of the US.

METAVERSE NEWS

South Korea’s vision.
Metaverses that don’t work The EU foreign aid platform.

WHAT WE'RE READING

AI Congressman Ted Lieu on the need to regulate.
Data free flow with trust.
Stanford’s new approach to embedding societal concerns into AI research.
A social license for data Reuse by our friends at govlab.
AI is infrastructure.
This article in The Markup on the failures of GDPR approach.
Dataset of Problems with AI.
Here’s why open AI code matters–is it consistently open and how does it relate to IPR protection?
Stanford study of metaverse use of biometric data.
AI and Human Rights.

USEFUL INFORMATION

CCIA’s state privacy tracker.
Canada's iMatr website made our App of the Month Club.

CALL FOR PAPERS

CIGI and the International Association for Research in Income and Wealth are seeking papers for a 2023 conference, The Valuation of Data. The deadline for submission is January 31, 2023. Find out more here.

REQUEST FOR COMMENTS

The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) requests public comment on how “the ways in which firms collect, share and use data” — including for targeted online advertising — “can exacerbate existing structural inequities.”
The National Artificial Intelligence Advisory Committee invites comments and concerns to email naiac@nist.gov by 5 p.m. ET on Wednesday, February 8, with the subject line “February 10, 2023, NAIAC Meeting Comments.”

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