Health, Location Data Should Be ‘Off Limits’ for AI, FTC Chair Says
- Federal Trade Commission chair highlights agency AI focus
- Agency is also scrutinizing Big Tech investments in AI
Lina Khan, chair of the Federal Trade Commission
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Sensitive personal data related to health, location or web browsing history should be “off limits” for training artificial intelligence models, US Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan said Tuesday.
The FTC is working to create “bright lines on the rules of development, use and management of AI inputs,” Khan said at RemedyFest, a conference hosted by Bloomberg Beta and Y Combinator. “On the consumer protection side, that means making sure that some data — particularly peoples’ sensitive health data, geolocation data and browsing data — is simply off limits for model training.”