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CYBERSECURITY 101
US AI REGULATORY LANDSCAPE
100

Biometric data often includes a person’s retina scans, facial geometry, or these unique patterns on one's digits.

What are fingerprints?

100

Assuming Langdon Winner were a guest speaker, he'd have argued that Artifacts have this.

What are politics?

100

GDPR

What is the General Data Protection Regulation?

100

When an unauthorized person hacks into a system and obtains data, it’s known as a data this.

What is a data breach?

100

A 2023 Executive Order released by President Biden aims to ensure this kind of AI development.


What is safe, secure, and trustworthy?

200

These AI models, trained on massive text corpora, rely on probability distributions to predict the next most likely word or token.

What are large language models (LLMs)?

200

Emily McReynolds leads AI strategy efforts at this company.

What is Adobe?

200

CFPB

What is the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau?

200

Malicious software designed to damage or disrupt computer systems is commonly called this.

What is malware?

200

In a 2023 joint statement, the EEOC, DOJ, CFPB, and the FTC stressed the need to combat this problematic outcome in AI-based decisions.

What is algorithmic discrimination?

300

One concern with generative AI is its ability to create realistic but fabricated audio or video—commonly referred to by this portmanteau.

What is a “deepfake”?

300

Prof. Ryan Calo brought in perspectives from this academic field (abbreviated STS) in analyzing technology’s societal impacts.

What is science and technology studies?

300

COPPA

What is the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act?

300

This process scrambles data so only those with the proper key can read it.

What is encryption?

300

This state made headlines for enacting a risk-based AI law, focusing on preventing algorithmic discrimination in consumer-facing high-risk AI systems.

What is Colorado?

400

In privacy enforcement, the FTC and FCC can order companies to pay monetary penalties or sign these legally binding agreements if they mishandle user data.

What are consent decrees?

400

The title of Prof. Emily Bender's upcoming, new book.

What is "The AI Con"?

400

FOIA

What is the Freedom of Information Act?

400

A system that monitors and blocks suspicious incoming traffic can be referred to by this fortress-related name.

What is a firewall?

400

AI policy often grapples with this concept, aiming to prevent detrimental outcomes for protected groups in finance, hiring, and housing.

What is algorithmic fairness (or anti-discrimination)?

500

This institution, cited in our course materials for its work on “Computational Power and AI,” focuses on social implications of artificial intelligence.

What is the AI Now Institute?

500

Logan Koepke of Upturn discussed “Less Discriminatory Algorithms,” focusing on ensuring that AI tools avoid disparate impact/ He also discussed nuanced AI policy discourses and possible standards surrounding the insurance companies in this state.

What is Colorado?

500

UDAP

What are Unfair and Deceptive Acts or Practices?

500

The shortest time possible to restore normal service after a cybersecurity incident is often described with the acronym RTO, meaning this.

What is recovery time objective?

500

The White House office that introduced the Blueprint for an “AI Bill of Rights,” guiding federal policy on emerging tech.

What is the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP)?

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