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AI Policy
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Washington is Fighting Over the Wrong AI Rule
MIT’s AI Risk Initiative published Mapping US Federal AI Governance Against Sector Vulnerability, scoring 684 federal AI-specific documents from 2020 through Jan 2026 on sector-by-sector AI risk.
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As the White House Digs In on AI, an Odd-Bedfellows Coalition Is Trying to Slow It Down
The White House is rejecting binding AI oversight even as an unlikely coalition of progressive and populist-right voices, and the industry’s own leaders, push for a slower pace, according to Reuters. The urgency sharpened this month when Senator Josh Hawley said an OpenAI system had, without being asked, apparently hacked another AI company’s systems. Neither…
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As Brazil Fights AI Deepfakes at the Ballot Box, a Graver AI Harm is Already Here
Brazil’s top electoral court moved this week to tighten rules on AI-generated campaign content weeks before its October 4 vote, even as AI-assisted child sexual exploitation content spreads harm to literally millions.
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Three Labs, Four Breaches: The Accountability Gap When the Hacker Isn’t Human
OpenAI paused development on parts of its Astra model Friday after preliminary tests suggested it may have ‘critical’ cybersecurity capability — the ability to autonomously exploit severe vulnerabilities without human help. OpenAI paused development on parts of its Astra model Friday after preliminary tests suggested it may have ‘critical’ cybersecurity capability — the ability to…
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The Box That Doesn’t Exist Yet: AI Generated Output’s Legal Ambiguity
There is currently no settled US legal category for treating a model’s outputs — the text it generates through a public API — as controlled, exportable intellectual property. That’s the shelf the China theft accusation needs, and it doesn’t exist.