In response to the rise of the use of artificial intelligence
(AI) technologies in telecommunications, on July 17, 2024, the
Federal Communications Commission (FCC) issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (Notice), CG
Docket No. 23-362, outlining certain proposed restrictions on
AI-generated calls and text messages.
The Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) sets restrictions
on certain calls or texts made without the prior express consent of
the recipient. With the increasing prevalence of AI technologies
that can generate content for calls and texts, the FCC now proposes
to update the existing TCPA rules to cover certain AI generated
telecommunications.
Toward that end, the Notice first defines an "AI generated
call" as "a call that uses any technology or tool to
artificially generate a voice or text using computational
technology or other machine learning, including predictive
algorithms, and large language models, to process natural language
and produce
