International, federal, and state privacy regulators highlighted their ambitious agendas at the 2023 IAPP Global Privacy Summit in Washington, D.C. They, along with speakers from an array of private organizations, underscored the following takeaways that should be top of mind for businesses:

1. Generative AI is a high priority for regulators. A wide variety of content focused on artificial intelligence (AI), including the keynote remarks by Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Commissioner Alvaro Bedoya, who explained that he does not see “existential threats” to our society from generative AI. Commissioner Bedoya also pushed back on assertions that generative AI is unregulated. According to Commissioner Bedoya, AI technology is subject to prohibitions on unfair and deceptive trade practices in Section 5 of the FTC Act; civil rights laws like Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, the Fair Housing Act (FHA), and the Equal Credit Opportunity Act (ECOA); and tort statutes and common law claims. Commissioner Bedoya cautioned developers to “think twice” before they deploy a product that misleadingly leads people to think it is a human or injures individuals’ mental health, especially that of teens or children.

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