United States of America: Adopted Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights

On 4 October 2022, the White House announced that the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) published its "Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights". The Blueprint provides guidance on how AI should be designed, used, and deployed in a way which respects the civil rights of American citizens. To this effect, the Blueprint identifies five guiding principles: (1) Citizens should have the right to not be exposed to unsafe and ineffective systems; (2) algorithms ought to support just decision-making and should not be used for discriminatory purposes; (3) citizens should be protected from abusive data practices; (4) AI systems should be transparent enough for citizens to know when and how they are being used; (5) citizens should have the right to opt out of certain services or data declarations and a contact person to remedy the problem should be easily accessible. Further, the Blueprint contains technical guidance on how entities developing or using AI can best implement the principles in practice.