Public disclosures and transparency obligations
One notice never fits all, but one rule is near-universal: almost all AI laws worldwide require disclosure that AI is in place, treated by the FTC as a threshold requirement. The EU two-way information chain has providers brief deployers while deployers disclose to users and feed information back. Finance triggers adverse action notices.
Almost all AI laws worldwide require disclosure that AI is in place → that you are interacting with an AI system, or that AI is part of the decision-making process you are subject to. The FTC has long been clear this is a threshold requirement for almost any engagement.
The EU two-way information chain → providers pass specific notices and information to enterprise customers or end users; deployers disclose to final users AND feed information back to the provider about incidents and operational observations → ongoing monitoring is tracked and documented for the other players in the workstream and sometimes regulators.
- Use case or context → financial services, health, employment, education.
- Whether bias testing was done · whether opt-out opportunities exist.
- Other laws → privacy, breach notification.
- Users need AI identified to exercise rights → appeal, redress, seeing and correcting their data.
- Finance → adverse action notices when an application is declined, implicating any AI in that process.