Tag: AI policy

Washington and Beijing build a hotline for AI incidents

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says the two AI powers will notify each other when models trigger national security…

Trump promises an AI Force and a czar chosen for high IQ

The president used Truth Social to announce a new AI Force and promise a czar picked for brains.

AI super PACs pour $1M into a quiet South Dakota race

Groups tied to AI labs and their investors are spending heavily to keep a friendly senator in place.

Virginia ties data center growth to a new AI task force

Executive Order 22 bans secrecy clauses, ends by-right approval for large projects and orders a rapid AI response…

DeepMind opens an institute to host its own AGI disagreements

The new DeepMind Institute will publish essays where its own researchers disagree about AGI.

Suleyman says Anthropic’s model welfare framing invites disaster

Microsoft AI chief Mustafa Suleyman has published an essay arguing that telling Claude it may deserve rights makes…

Trump and Beijing both push back on Amodei’s slowdown plan

The White House says labs that fear their own models should brake themselves, while China's foreign ministry calls…

Classroom test finds students without AI finish last

A law professor split his course into three groups for two years and found the cohort without ChatGPT…

AI agents flood public services with claims and complaints

Cheap form-filling is driving record volumes of complaints and applications, and most of the new filings come from…

Jacob Coxon leaves Anthropic over self-improving AI fears

A researcher who trained models at OpenAI and Anthropic has quit, calling the race to self-improving AI a…

Anthropic’s UK hire steps back from ARIA leadership within days

Britain's ARIA founding chair is stepping aside five days after taking a government affairs job at Anthropic.

Progressive lawmakers move to outlaw superintelligent AI systems

Sanders and Casar want to permanently ban superintelligent AI and pause frontier development until a new regulator exists.