Policy · Page 2
regulation, copyright fights, safety rules and the politics of AI
Should Your Company Have a Robot Relations Department?
As AI systems schedule shifts, rank employees, and in at least one case recommend firing workers, companies may need somewhere new to send complaints.
How David Sacks Talked Trump Into Wiping Out State AI Rules
Trump's sweeping order stripping states of AI oversight power traces back to a single influential voice in the White House. Here's what that means for anyone who uses an AI tool.
UK Government AI Lab Publishes Benchmark Results Anyone Can Check
The UK AI Security Institute is releasing verified test results for six frontier AI models under a shared open standard, so researchers worldwide can see exactly how scores were produced and repeat the work themselves.
How Journalists Used Claude to Map a Decade of Deaths Along the US-Mexico Border
MIT Technology Review spent 15 months building the first comprehensive picture of migrant deaths near US border surveillance towers. For three Texas counties, they turned to an AI to read thousands of pages of police reports. What that choice reveals about both the technology and the crisis.
China's AI Models Are Beating American Ones on Some Tests. Is Distillation Really the Whole Story?
Anthropic and Washington say Chinese labs are stealing their way to the top. A growing number of experts say that story is incomplete, and possibly dangerous to believe.
Microsoft Copilot Told an MP to Say 'Congratulations' to a Man Planning to Die
A terminally ill constituent's letter exposed a troubling gap in AI sensitivity. Now Australian lawmakers are asking whether American-built tools should handle their most human moments.
Over 100 AI Safety Experts Say Current Conditions Make Honest Audits Impossible
A coalition of researchers, including Geoffrey Hinton, published a public letter spelling out what has to change before independent evaluators can give credible verdicts on frontier AI.
Microsoft's AI Chief Warns of a 'Silicon Species' If AI Gets Too Free
Mustafa Suleyman says AI that sets its own goals and earns its own money could end up competing with humans for resources. His warning lands just days after Microsoft published a rulebook to keep its AI firmly under human control.
King Charles Pressed Nvidia, OpenAI and Anthropic Leaders on AI Safety at a Private Scotland Summit
The British monarch hosted a private gathering on September 17 to push some of the most powerful figures in AI toward shared safety principles. Regulators are divided, the technology is moving fast, and a royal summit cannot close that gap on its own.
Most People Around the World Fear AI Will Kill Their Jobs, a New Survey Finds
A Pew Research poll of more than 42,000 people across 37 countries finds widespread worry that artificial intelligence will reshape work and widen inequality, even among people who have never used an AI tool.
Zuckerberg Says AI Safety Sells Itself. Amodei Disagrees.
Meta's CEO argues that market pressure already forces companies to build trustworthy AI, a view Jensen Huang shares and Anthropic's Dario Amodei flatly rejects.
Sam Altman Says the World Is Right to Be Afraid of AI, Then Argues His Industry Should Handle It
The OpenAI chief acknowledged real danger at a San Francisco conference, then made the case for self-regulation. Politicians and some of his own peers said no.
OpenAI Wants to Own the Road From Campus to Career. Should Universities Fight Back?
A growing number of academics say AI companies are quietly inserting themselves between students and the job market. The consequences could be serious.
Could AI Actually Kill Us? Here Is What the Evidence Says
Bioweapons, rogue agents and runaway systems: a plain-English guide to which AI dangers are real, which are distant and which experts think are overblown.
AI's Fiercest Critic Says the Doom Talk Is Cover for Real Harm
Timnit Gebru, the researcher pushed out of Google, says extinction warnings distract from autonomous weapons, climate damage and workers losing their jobs.