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In 2023, the FDA navigated challenges while achieving significant public health milestones. Member Joanne Hawana and Of Counsel Benjamin Zegarelli highlight key takeaways from the year, addressing multifaceted issues such as CBD regulation, the overhaul of in vitro clinical tests, and the management of manufacturing failures. These pivotal topics underscore the FDA’s proactive approach to evolving healthcare regulations and technological advancements. 

Read about a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing addressing the impact of algorithms on competition and consumer rights in the latest edition of AI: The Washington Report, a joint undertaking of Mintz and ML Strategies covering potential federal legislative, executive, and regulatory activities related to AI.

Read about the SEC’s warnings about “AI-washing” and stiff industry opposition to its proposed rules for conflicts of interest in the use of predictive data analytics technologies by broker-dealers and investment advisers in the latest edition of AI: The Washington Report, a joint undertaking of Mintz and ML Strategies covering potential federal legislative, executive, and regulatory activities related to AI.

Read about workplace implications of president biden’s executive order addressing artificial intelligence in the latest edition of AI: The Washington Report, a joint undertaking of Mintz and ML Strategies covering potential federal legislative, executive, and regulatory activities related to AI.

See a timeline of Biden’s AI Executive Order, which details when some of the EO’s major provisions will come into effect, in the latest edition of AI: The Washington Report, a joint undertaking of Mintz and ML Strategies covering potential federal legislative, executive, and regulatory activities related to AI.

Read about the FTC’s preauthorization of a compulsory process in investigations relating to AI and a new AI bill supported by a bipartisan group of Commerce Committee senators in the latest edition of AI: The Washington Report, a joint undertaking of Mintz and ML Strategies covering potential federal legislative, executive, and regulatory activities related to AI.

Read about the FTC’s Voice Cloning Challenge to encourage the creation of policies, practices, and technologies to prevent or detect the abuse of AI voice cloning tools in the latest edition of AI: The Washington Report, a joint undertaking of Mintz and ML Strategies covering potential federal legislative, executive, and regulatory activities related to AI.

Read about the Copyright Office’s request for comments on issues regarding AI and copyright and the FTC’s submission in response in the latest edition of AI: The Washington Report, a joint undertaking of Mintz and ML Strategies covering potential federal legislative, executive, and regulatory activities related to AI.

Read about the OMB’s draft memorandum providing guidance to agencies on how to implement President Biden’s executive order on AI, the UK’s AI Safety Summit, and the Bletchley Declaration that emerged from the summit in the latest edition of AI: The Washington Report, a joint undertaking of Mintz and ML Strategies covering potential federal legislative, executive, and regulatory activities related to AI.

Senior VP of ML Strategies John Lushetsky, Private Equity Practice Co-chair Matthew T. Simpson, Member Paul H. Dickerson, and Project Analyst Raj Gambhir delve into the transformative landscape of cross-border supply chains for critical minerals, EV batteries, and semiconductors. Navigating the intricacies of the Inflation Reduction Act, Defense Production Act, and tax credits, the authors highlight how Canadian companies, considered ‘domestic’ under certain legislations, can harness funding and benefits.

President Biden issued his long-expected executive order on AI addressing workforce training and modernization, privacy, equity and civil rights, safety and security, competition and consumer protection, R&D investments, and government use of AI. Mintz Antitrust Practice Co-chair Bruce Sokler, with ML Strategies’ EVP and Director of Operations Alex Hecht and SVP Christian Fjeld, cover this development in their latest weekly update on AI-related activity in Washington, DC.

Read about Biden’s recently announced restrictions on the export of AI chips and chip manufacturing equipment to China in the latest edition of AI: The Washington Report, a joint undertaking of Mintz and ML Strategies covering potential federal legislative, executive, and regulatory activities related to AI.

Read emerging insights on an AI-focused executive order expected from the Biden administration sometime this fall in the latest edition of AI: The Washington Report, a joint undertaking of Mintz and ML Strategies covering potential federal legislative, executive, and regulatory activities related to AI.

Read about recent CFPB actions focused on AI in the latest edition of AI: The Washington Report, a joint undertaking of Mintz and ML Strategies covering potential federal legislative, executive, and regulatory activities related to AI.

Read about the FTC’s recent “Creative Economy and Generative AI” roundtable discussion, which featured professionals from a variety of creative fields, in the latest edition of AI: The Washington Report, a joint undertaking of Mintz and ML Strategies covering potential federal legislative, executive, and regulatory activities related to AI.

Read about FTC indications of its intent to regulate AI and a recently introduced bill that would boost the agency’s authority and resources to regulate the use of this technology in the latest edition of AI: The Washington Report, a joint undertaking of Mintz and ML Strategies covering potential federal legislative, executive, and regulatory activities related to AI.

In this edition of AI: The Washington Report, read about Mintz’s Federal AI Legislation Tracker, which tracks bills pending in Congress that primarily concern AI regulation or that would institute significant regulations, policies, or programs concerning AI.

In the first of a multi-part series, our team examines trends in AI regulation and the impact it will have on businesses that use it. 

Read about the FTC’s complaint against Automated AI and affiliated entities and individuals over AI-related misleading claims in the latest edition of AI: The Washington Report, a joint undertaking of Mintz and ML Strategies covering potential federal legislative, executive, and regulatory activities related to AI.

Read the latest edition of AI: The Washington Report, a joint undertaking of Mintz and ML Strategies covering potential federal legislative, executive, and regulatory activities related to AI, including a recent FCC and NSF Workshop on AI’s implications for communications networks and consumers.