GPD inputs to NTIA AI Accountability Policy Request for Comment

We welcome the opportunity to provide comments on the AI Accountability Policy Request for Comment issued by the National Telecommunications and Information Administration.

GPD is pleased that the government is undertaking this effort to interrogate what effective accountability means in AI policy. AI has been compared in recent days with electricity, as something truly revolutionary that will radically change our lives and power each one of our human activities. Whether this claim becomes true is something that remains to be seen, but what is clear is that AI at its current stage of development is not something that happens against our will, and there is a fundamental opportunity for concerted action by governments, companies, and the general public to ensure that AI is regulated and overseen in a way that mitigates and redresses existing harms and is underpinned by transparency.

In this landscape it is useful to remember that AI is yet another form of technology, hence a human creation. This means that existing frameworks and types of regulations which have been developed in previous decades are still relevant today, and we can use these to guide ongoing efforts to harness the advantages of AI technologies and mitigate its harms. This includes critically the human rights international framework.