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CDT Urges NIST to Adopt Standards that Incorporate Civil Rights Principles
- Occurred
- Apr 8, 2026
- Published
- Apr 8, 2026
- Source
- Center for Democracy and Technology
Summary
CDT joined a civil society letter to the National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) responding to the agency’s draft guidance on practices for automated benchmark evaluations of language models. In the letter, we urge NIST to adopt standards that incorporate civil rights principles, including anti-discrimination measures like disparate treatment and disparate impact testing, and […] The post CDT Urges NIST to Adopt Standards that Incorporate Civil Rights Principles appeared first on Center for Democracy and Technology.
Classification
Category confidence: 90%
Severity confidence: 95%
Rationale: Advocacy letter urging civil rights principles in AI standards, no concrete incident or harm reported.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8