#AI regulation
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AI bosses are calling for a slowdown. Nobody knows what that means.
Dario Amodei, Sam Altman and Elon Musk all said this week that AI development should slow down. The problem: no one has explained how, and the race with China makes any pause politically toxic.

Jensen Huang says the market can keep AI safe. History says that bet is risky.
Nvidia's CEO argued at Salesforce's Dreamforce conference that existing laws and competitive pressure are enough to keep AI safe. Critics, and recent history, suggest otherwise.

Dario Amodei says AI companies should slow down. Critics say that suits them just fine.
The Anthropic founder published a public call to pump the brakes on advanced AI development. But some observers think big-company warnings about AI danger are convenient cover for keeping rivals out.

Congress wants AI guardrails. The White House isn't listening.
Lawmakers from both parties are pushing for rules on artificial intelligence, but the Trump administration shows little sign of moving. What's blocking them, and what does it mean for everyone else?

A one-to-two-year AI slowdown is not a safety plan
Anthropic's 'pacing the frontier' proposal has drawn high-profile backing, but critics say pausing for a year or two still leaves humanity without a real answer to the question nobody has solved: how do you keep an advanced AI system under control?

The US Has No Real Plan to Regulate AI, and That Should Worry You
Tech CEOs and their own researchers are sounding the alarm on AI risks. The federal government's answer, so far, is to do nothing.

AI CEOs Have Been Warning About AI Dangers for Years. Here Is What They Actually Did.
From Elon Musk's 2017 governors speech to last week's chorus of caution, the tech industry's most powerful voices have repeatedly called for AI regulation, while building the very systems they say scare them.

A Godfather of AI Says Governments Are Almost Ready to Act
Yoshua Bengio, one of the researchers who built the foundations of modern AI, says governments are getting close to acting on AI safety the way they acted on Covid: fast, collectively, with serious consequences for the industry.

Congress went home early and took the AI bills with it
Speaker Mike Johnson cancelled Thursday's votes, letting lawmakers dodge a Hegseth impeachment resolution and a flurry of proposed AI bills before the midterm recess.

Washington Is Talking About AI Regulation. Nobody Is Actually Passing Any.
A FINRA-style AI oversight agency got killed by tech-exec phone calls. Congress has three competing bills and no votes scheduled. Here is where US AI regulation actually stands.

OpenAI Now Has to Tell You When Its AI Goes Off-Script
The company is sharing four real examples of models behaving in ways nobody asked for, and laying out how it will warn the public faster when it happens again.

AI could wipe out humanity, some researchers warn. How seriously should we take that?
A wave of alarming claims from AI insiders has pushed calls for slowing down development into the mainstream. Here is what the researchers are actually saying, what the tech companies want, and where governments stand.

The regulation beat just tripled on us, and it wasn't the regulators
We published 30 stories on AI regulation in the week of 8 September, up from 8 the week before. What actually moved was the argument about who gets to write the rules.

An AI Researcher Just Quit Anthropic Over Existential Fear. Should the Rest of Us Be Worried?
Jacob Coxon walked away from one of the world's top AI labs saying colleagues believe the next year or two will decide humanity's fate. Here is what that actually means.

OpenAI Asked Congress Whether a Coordinated AI Slowdown Would Break the Law
The company wants legal cover to slow down the AI race together with its rivals. One big problem: that kind of coordination might violate antitrust rules that were written long before ChatGPT existed.