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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 …

The World Is Already Resisting AI. Now, There is a List to Prove It. techpolicy.press

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.

The Web Is Being Made Accessible for AI, Not People | TechPolicy.Press techpolicy.press

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.

Anthropic's Mythos Recall and the White House's Missing AI Safety Playbook techpolicy.press

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.

Language Models Trained on State Media Sources Launder Propaganda | TechPolicy.Press techpolicy.press

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…

The Blind Spot in AI Safety techpolicy.press

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…

How AI is Powering Transnational Repression techpolicy.press

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.

Google’s ‘New Era for AI Search’ May Threaten Democracy techpolicy.press

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.

Brazil's 2026 Elections Are Its First Real Stress Test for AI Regulation techpolicy.press

Pope Leo XIV's encyclical calls for AI that protects human dignity. But who's responsible for delivering it—users or designers? Political scientist José Marichal warns against piling responsibility on individuals while systems are built to undermine their judgment.

The Pope’s Encyclical on AI Was Important—Now Comes the Hard Part techpolicy.press

For the first time since the birth of the Internet, the world is confronting not merely a new technology in AI, but a new operational status quo. The question is whether governance can evolve before security fears harden into permanent fragmentation, writes Konstantinos Komaitis.

Cybersecurity Will Swallow Digital Policy in the AI Age techpolicy.press

While Europe still thinks in markets, the world thinks in ecosystems. To understand the challenge for European tech, we must look at the gravitational pulls shaping the global landscape, write Frederike Kaltheuner and Leevi Saari. Tech Policy Press is launching a new series wi…

Series: What Europe’s AI Market Actually Looks Like techpolicy.press

Trump’s postponed AI executive order revealed more than internal disagreement over regulation. The real story is the now opaque system for governing frontier AI — shaped by secrecy, influence, and closed-door negotiations, argues James Görgen.

Trump Abandons 'FDA for AI' Proposal techpolicy.press

"It's just vibes-based regulation." Alex Stamos spoke to Justin Hendrix about the White House yanking Anthropic's Fable with no written standard, no warning, and no procedural path back. He compares it to grounding a jet without telling Boeing why. It's sending the wrong message abroad, he says.