The same day the OECD publishes alarming PISA test results for kids around the world steeply declining in cognitive tests, OpenAI announces this feat. Is it Poe poetry? Coincidence? Tragicomedy? It’s something for sure. openai.com/index/navier...
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Gabriela Zanfir-Fortuna
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Data Protection Geek. Co-author of the big GDPR OUP Commentary🇷🇴🇪🇺🇺🇸 US-based, former Brussels bubbler. Writes about data protection law and policy, AI governance through a Global lens (& sometimes democracy) Strictly personal views.
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openai.com
As A.I. Accelerates, Governments Are Increasingly Being Left Behind nytimes.com
axios.com
CADA: An (E)U-turn on AI regulation fpf.org
Why “Ai Carte”? aicarte.substack.com
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A scathing portrait of the inability of governments to act and enact policies to meaningfully govern AI safety, by Cecilia Kang and Adam Satariano in today's New York Times (gift link). The authors write about "a global policy vacuum as AI models rapidly advance" (…) www.nytim…
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- The NYT reports AI has produced one of the widest-ever gaps between policymaking and technology, drawing on more than 20 expert interviews.
- The EU's AI Act, passed in 2024, has seen some of its most consequential rules delayed, with staffing constraints hampering enforcement.
- With no US comprehensive AI law and the Trump administration divided on safety, companies like Anthropic and OpenAI are largely self-policing.
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The plot thickens. Perhaps it’s a good time to double check and toggle those opt-outs. Even the memory function “on” looks a bit unnecessary at this time 🫢 www.axios.com/2026/09/25/o...
The new EU Cloud and AI Development Act (CADA) proposal marks a genuine shift in the way the bloc regulates AI, as it codifies the “AI first” principle & it is as much an “AI promotion and enabling”-type of legislation as it is a cloud sovereignty one. My in depth analysis: fp…
Gently launching into the world my personal Substack, Ai Carte - I explain here why “Ai Carte” aicarte.substack.com/p/why-ai-car... and here you can find a first post about a book, “The Bookshop Woman”, by Nanako Hanada aicarte.substack.com/p/the-booksh... I missed writing for…
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To a certain extent, the AI alignment problem is what a purpose limitation principle would solve in data protection law 🤔
I understand the "pacing" plea in AI development as technically meaning "festina lente", the first Latin expression I learned in secondary school, and, frankly, the only one that stayed with me for so long because it had such a curious meaning. The Romans were sage, indeed! #pacing
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