AI Reports · Stanford HAI · 2026-10-30 · Report / white paper
Rethinking Privacy in the AI Era: Policy Provocations for a Data-Centric World | Stanford HAI
This white paper examines how current and future privacy and data protection legislation will affect AI development and offers recommendations for mitigating privacy harms in the AI era. It argues that AI's growing demand for training data will intensify the race for data acquisition. It also contends that unrestrained data collection creates societal-level harms that individual data rights alone cannot address.