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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

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

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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Rather than demonstrating how well the European regime works, Hannes Bastians and Maarten Herbosch argue the OpenAI-Hugging Face incident highlights the need to interpret the EU AI Act with a strong focus on the model regime’s purpose, so that similar incidents do not go unrep…

The EU AI Act Mandates AI Incident Reporting—If We’re Lucky lawfaremedia.org

Which AI models does the administration’s framework cover? Who decides on “trusted partners”? Can developers share models with allied governments? @adamconner.bsky.social on the unanswered questions about a de facto AI licensing system: www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...

The Many Open Questions About the Trump Administration’s New De Facto AI Model Licensing System lawfaremedia.org

On Sept. 1, the Justice Department filed a brief supporting American AI companies’ right to train models on copyrighted text, but seems to criticize Chinese companies for similar conduct, a puzzle Lisa Klaassen calls the “distillation paradox.”

The AI Model Distillation Paradox lawfaremedia.org

A common objection to American pauses in AI research to ensure that humans remain reliably in control of these systems is concern about China. A deal with China will need to leverage the threat of throttling to encourage mutual pacing, writes Simon Goldstein & @petersalib.bsky…

How to Make an AI Deal With China: Trade Throttling for Pacing lawfaremedia.org

As Congress debates who should control frontier AI governance, @mailynfidler.bsky.social and Matt Kristoffersen warn that cybersecuritization may oversimplify the AI regulation debate and remove the issue from ordinary democratic deliberation into the realm of the expert and t…

A Warning for Frontier AI Model Governance lawfaremedia.org

This week's Seriously Risky Business looks at whether AI labs should be given liability exemptions, the difference in how Russian and Chinese cyberespionage actors are using AI, and more. Read the newsletter, by @tom.risky.biz.

Bring On the AI Lawsuits 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.

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.