Electronic Privacy Information Center v. National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA ELECTRONIC PRIVACY INFORMATION CENTER, Plaintiff, v. Case No. 1:19-cv-02906 (TNM) NATIONAL SECURITY COMMISSION ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, et al., Defendants. MEMORANDUM OPINION The Roman god Janus famously has two faces. One looks backward, toward the past; the other looks forward, toward the future. Mythologists understand his two-faced depiction as complementary, not contradictory. 1 It means that every beginning has an ending, every ending a beginning. Like a doorway, Janus looks both ways. So, too, with our Nation’s open…