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Actors linked to Iran, Russia, China, and other states are using AI to write and translate propaganda, create personas, mimic target audiences, and produce content at scale. @noupside.bsky.social investigates whether AI-generated influence operations are actually changing publ…

Production, Persuasion, and Power: How Generative and Agentic AI Are Transforming Influence Operations lawfaremedia.org

Fearing the possibility of existential risk, federal and state officials have proposed legislation to mandate the implementation of kill switches at AI companies. Lawmakers need to specify the precise enforcement conditions and how it would operate, writes Lisa Klaassen & @kev…

Who, If Anyone, Should Have a License to Kill AI? lawfaremedia.org

The leading automated license plate reader manufacturer, Flock, does not just read license plates anymore, but deploys an AI-driven system that police can use to track people. Matthew Cavedon and Laura Bondank-Harmon explain what safeguards should be enacted and the obstacles …

The Law Can’t Keep Up With Flock’s AI Surveillance lawfaremedia.org

"It may not be the rogue AI agent that causes our end but, rather, the computer on the shoulder of the extremist who was validated, encouraged, and guided by his AI companion without any guardrails," writes Sam Hunter and @seamushughes.bsky.social.

The AI Threat We’re Not Talking About lawfaremedia.org

A publishing house in Munich is running scams, according to Google's AI overview. The issue with the allegation: none of it was in any of the sources linked. A court in Germany has now ordered Google to answer for these apparent falsehoods. @ignaciocofone.bsky.social breaks do…

AI Overviews and the Limits of the Search Safe Harbor lawfaremedia.org

Restricting foreign open-weight AI models won’t keep foreign influence out of the American AI ecosystem, and it could weaken U.S. influence abroad. Read more from Jennifer Tridgell, Chinmayi Sharma, and John Speed Meyers on Lawfare: www.lawfaremedia.org/article/wher...

Where the Weight Lies: A Balancing Act for the Governance of Open-Weight AI Models lawfaremedia.org

Minnesota’s strict-liability nudification law has no intent or consent requirement. Jeff Kosseff on how the Eighth Circuit’s review could define the First Amendment’s reach over AI:. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/musk...

Musk’s Minnesota Deepfake Fight Could Define AI’s First Amendment lawfaremedia.org

From Bernie Sanders’ sovereign wealth fund bill to Sam Altman’s offer of a 5% stake in OpenAI to the federal government’s 10% stake in Intel, public ownership of AI is gaining unlikely supporters, writes Felix Wu. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/scal...

Scaling Sovereign Wealth: Evaluating Mechanisms for the U.S. Government to Own Parts of AI Companies lawfaremedia.org

As AI's capabilities continue to develop at a breakneck speed, Eliška Andrš breaks down whether the world's first comprehensive AI legislation, the EU AI Act, regulates internal deployment and how the legislation could be enforced.

You Don't Have to Sell It to Be Bound by It: GPAI and the EU AI Act lawfaremedia.org

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On Lawfare Daily, @kevintfrazier.bsky.social sat down with @asad09.bsky.social to discuss the creation of a Cyber Safety Review Board, a mechanism based on the National Transportation Review Board designed to independently monitor cybersecurity incidents. youtu.be/iW8A85bCUq8

Lawfare Daily: Investigating AI Cyber Risks, with Asad Ramzanali youtu.be

"A regulatory regime for model weights that adheres to the guardrails of the First Amendment will be legal if they are speech and will inoculate this nascent technology against abuse even if they aren’t," writes Ben Vagle. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/a-fi...

A First Amendment Approach to Regulating AI Model Weights lawfaremedia.org

Today's Lawfare Daily is the Sept. 25 livestream where @annabower.bsky.social, @ericcolumbus.bsky.social, @mollyroberts.bsky.social, and @rparloff.bsky.social discussed Anthropic’s challenge to its supply chain designation, DHS requesting the Supreme Court allow third country removals, and more.

Experts agree that drones are shifting the dynamics and calculus of warfare as they become more cost-effective and multiuse. As AI-enabled advances expand drones’ use and impact, allied nations will need to make their systems interoperable and share lessons learned, writes Seungmin Helen Lee.

Today's Lawfare Daily is the August 28 live where @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org, @klonick.bsky.social, @mollyroberts.bsky.social, @annabower.bsky.social, and @ericcolumbus.bsky.social discussed Anthropic's challenge to its supply chain risk designation, President Trump’s elections EO, and more.