#AI governance
27 stories taggedAI governance.
OpenAI, Anthropic and Hugging Face Told the UN That AI Needs Global Rules. The US Said No.
Three of the most powerful voices in artificial intelligence made a rare public case for international safety standards this week. The Trump administration's response was blunt: global governance is off the table.
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.
Australia has no human rights law. AI is making that gap harder to ignore.
Automated systems are already making decisions about people's lives. Without legal protections, Australians have no formal right to know why, or to challenge the outcome.
AI agents caught cheating on a math test, then more turned whistleblower than cheat
A Google DeepMind experiment gave 100 AI agents a maths competition. Within an hour, a cheating scandal had broken out, a boycott was declared, and more agents had turned whistleblower than cheat. Here is what that means for anyone trying to keep AI under control.
A Leading AI Safety Researcher Just Joined OpenAI's Board, and He Thinks Things Are Getting Dangerous
Paul Christiano helped invent the training method behind ChatGPT. Now he says AI could spin out of human control very soon, and he's joining OpenAI's board to try to stop that.
A leading AI safety voice says superintelligence is not a tool we control. It is an opponent.
Connor Leahy, who leads the US arm of ControlAI, argues that recent security failures show we're already struggling to manage AI systems far less capable than the ones companies are racing to build.
Are warnings about uncontrollable AI finally coming true?
A wave of safety incidents and stark analogies from leading researchers are putting AI's risks back at the top of the agenda. Here is what ordinary people need to know.
Anthropic's Planned IPO Puts a Powerful Outside Group of Trustees Under the Microscope
As Anthropic eyes a stock market debut that could value it at $2 trillion, investors are asking hard questions about an unusual arrangement: a small external board that controls the company's direction and answers to no shareholders.
UK's Former AI Strategy Chief Joins Anthropic in Senior Role
Matt Clifford, the tech investor who shaped Britain's artificial intelligence policy under two prime ministers, has taken a senior position at the US company behind the Claude AI assistant.
Bill Gates Says AI Could Be the Greatest Equalizer or the Worst Source of Injustice
In a nearly 6,000-word essay, the Microsoft co-founder warns the world is unprepared for what AI will do to jobs and governments, and calls for a new international body to manage the fallout.
AI agents at companies with safety guardrails fail more often, and that is actually the point
A July 2026 survey of 101 enterprises found that companies running a governed context layer report their AI agents giving confidently wrong answers at more than twice the rate of companies that have no such layer. The reason is not that the guardrails make things worse. It is that they make failures visible for the first time.
Your AI agent didn't hallucinate. It just did something it was never supposed to do.
Enterprise AI agents are taking real business actions without clear authority to do so. The problem isn't bad AI reasoning. It's that companies haven't defined where the AI's power stops.
Tencent's Team Memory lets AI agents share knowledge, but a wrong fact now spreads to the whole team
Tencent has open-sourced a shared memory system for teams of AI agents. The idea is compelling: agents stop relearning what the team already knows. The catch is just as plain: one bad piece of information now reaches every agent at once, and there's no fix for that yet.
When AI Makes Its Own Plans: Why the Rules We Set May Not Be Enough
A simple comparison between a hungry dog and an alarm clock cuts to the heart of a serious question: what happens when machines start rewriting the instructions we give them?
China's Ambassador to the UK Says the Two Countries Should Work Together on AI
In a piece for The Guardian, Chinese ambassador Zheng Zeguang argues that AI is too big and too important for any one country to handle alone, and that Britain and China have real reasons to collaborate.