Tech Policy Press fellow Petra Molnar highlights the AI Resist List: a global database documenting acts of resistance to the AI industry. From legal challenges and worker organizing to artistic interventions, the project seeks to challenge the “scale at all costs” development …
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The World Is Already Resisting AI. Now, There is a List to Prove It. techpolicy.press
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AI companies are now getting accommodations that disabled people spent decades fighting for. Jonathan Zong and Frank Elavsky argue this reflects a broader pattern, where accessibility gains become politically possible only once industry needs the same changes.
Two days after Dario Amodei called for mandatory frontier AI testing, the US ordered Anthropic to cut off foreign access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5. Justin Hendrix on how Washington's improvised response exposed the lack of an AI safety playbook.
State media is a component of LLM training data. A new Nature study says this material is laundered into what presents as objective chatbot text. LLMs also give more pro-regime answers when prompted in the official language of low-press-freedom countries than in English.
A growing assumption in AI safety is that frontier systems will fail unpredictably rather than through coherent misalignment. But as Jennifer Kinne argues, governance may be missing a more dangerous failure mode: models that appear reliable while gradually drifting away from r…
Based on 10 months of fieldwork, Hannah Lipstein shares five takeaways from "Greening AI in the public sector," a new procurement handbook for agencies weighing AI's environmental impacts.
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- Hannah Lipstein, a DAIR research associate, co-developed a handbook with Data & Society and the GovAI Coalition, which represents over 900 US agencies.
- The guide, drawn from 10 months of fieldwork, suggests asking vendors for average kilowatt hours per token or adding a single yes or no sustainability question.
- Lipstein argues for 'frugal AI' and warns the technology is being used to turbocharge fossil fuel extraction, calling adoption not inevitable.
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DOGE fed grant descriptions into ChatGPT and rubber-stamped the outputs. A court said that's the government's own conduct — not the chatbot's. Jordan Ascher explains why Learned Societies is a landmark for AI accountability.
Late Friday, the Commerce Department eased its block on Anthropic's Mythos. But UC Berkeley Risk and Security Lab's Andrew W. Reddie argues Lutnick's letter leaves the hard question unanswered. www.techpolicy.press/commerce-eas...
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- Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick exempted 'certain trusted partners' from export license requirements for Anthropic's Mythos 5, covering named entities and their foreign national employees.
- The original controls were imposed two weeks earlier after an Amazon researcher, relayed via CEO Andy Jassey, reported a jailbreak vulnerability in Anthropic's Fable 5 that could enable cyber attacks.
- The Export Administration Regulations were designed for physical goods, leaving it legally unsettled whether cloud-accessed AI capabilities constitute a 'deemed export.'
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Repression no longer stops at borders. AI is helping states surveil, intimidate and silence dissidents, exiled journalists and diaspora communities worldwide—often invisibly. In a new piece in Tech Policy Press, Ana Sofia Harrison and Marlena Wisniak map the tools, the harms a…
By July 1, states enacted 109 AI laws and 28 data center laws in 2026, writes NYU Center on Technology Policy director Scott Babwah Brennen—despite federal efforts to stop or limit state AI legislation.
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- States enacted 109 AI laws and 28 data-center laws by July 1, 2026, across 29 states, below 2025's pace but still active.
- Companion chatbots dominated: 14 states enacted laws requiring disclosure and addressing sexual content involving minors and self-harm risks.
- About 61% of Republican-controlled and 69% of Democratic-controlled states passed AI laws, with rare cross-partisan alignment on chatbot rules.
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Google calls it the biggest Search overhaul in 25+ years. AI Mode now has 1B+ monthly users—many defaulted in. Elise Silva asks what this shift means not just for competitors, but for billions of users, our shared information environment, and democracy.
Tech Policy Press fellow Tatiana Dias, covers the rise of “Dona Maria,” an AI-generated political influencer created by a Brazilian Uber driver that is reaching millions online, highlighting the challenge deepfakes and synthetic content pose ahead of the 2026 election.
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