UN: AI protections must move ahead before all the evidence is in
A UN scientific panel has warned that governments must regulate increasingly capable AI agents before their risks are fully understood. Rele…
Policy & Safety
Regulation, copyright, security and safety debates shaping AI.
The threat of AI-powered bioweapons serves as an alarm bell for the biotechnology industry
Top AI executives warn that AI could enable biological weapons. A 2022 experiment showed an AI molecule generator producing 40,000 toxic com…
Hollywood's perspective on existential warnings about AI
While tech leaders warn of existential AI risks, Hollywood unions SAG-AFTRA and WGAE argue focus should be on immediate worker harms: AI dig…
Gavin Newsom advocates for an emergency off switch for AI
California Governor Gavin Newsom signed an executive order directing an expert panel to deliver AI safety recommendations within two months,…
OpenAI and Microsoft were aware their work would trigger a 'doom loop' for the internet
Newly unsealed documents from the New York Times' copyright lawsuit reveal that OpenAI and Microsoft internally warned their AI data scrapin…
The battle over AI regulation is far from finished
AI industry leaders appeared to briefly align behind a three-part regulation proposal from Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei: third-party evaluator…
Should AI be granted an antitrust exemption to prevent it from wiping out humanity?
Former DOJ Antitrust Division chief Jonathan Kanter argues frontier AI companies don't need antitrust exemptions to coordinate on safety. Us…
India mandates caller-ID apps to share spam complaints with telecom carriers
India's telecom regulator TRAI has amended rules requiring caller-ID and call-management apps to share users' spam complaints with telecom o…