Professors Alicia Solow-Niederman and Daniel Solove’s research was quoted during a Senate testimony (from the University of Washington’s Lane Powell and D. Wayne Gittinger Professor of Law, Ryan Calo) on the need for privacy laws in the age of AI.
Solow-Niederman was quoted on the way AI leaves everyone more vulnerable, and her notion of an Inference Economy, “Contemporary information privacy protections do not grapple with the way that machine learning facilitates an inference economy” writes law professor Alicia Solow-Niederman “in which organizations use available data collected from individuals to generate further information about both those individuals and about other people.”
Solove’s research was cited to bolster the argument of the dangers of the technology, specifically in regards to the amount of data required to fuel today’s AI systems—“AI, as deployed today, required an immense amount of data by and about people to train its models. Sources of data include what is available online, which incentivizes companies to scour and scrape every corner of the internet.”
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