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New Policy & governance Development 11h ago
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European AI firms banned facial recognition India

European AI Firms Scale Banned Facial Recognition Systems in India

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“Facial recognition technology supplied by a Spanish firm and largely banned in the EU is running on around 4,000 cameras across India, Investigate Europe reports.”

New AI field signal Signal 6h ago

What Data Was Your AI Trained On? xAI Doesn't Want You To Know

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“Tyler Whitmer & Ben Rashkovich of LASST explain xAI's suit against California's AB 2013, a law requiring AI developers to publish general documentation of their training datasets—what they call the functional equivalent of an ingredient label.”

New Culture, work & education Analysis 13h ago
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AI authoritarianism modern work education essay

AI Lays Bare the Authoritarianism of Modern Work. Time to Rethink Education.

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“Dr. Velislava Hillman and Dr. Peter G. Kirchschlaeger argue that as AI erodes job markets, it exposes the reality that the crisis facing young people "was never primarily technological, but political." Time to rethink what education is for, they say.”

Established Policy & governance Analysis 16d ago
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greener AI government procurement essay

Governments Can Advance 'Greener AI' Through the Power of Procurement | TechPolicy.Press

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“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.”

“In @techpolicypress.bsky.social, Hannah Lipstein writes about the broader implications of “greening AI” in the public sector, and why the public has more power to shape the AI industry’s trajectory than we might think. www.techpolicy.press/governments-...”

Established Policy & governance Analysis 3d ago
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AI job discrimination legal responsibility

Assigning Responsibility When AI Discriminates Against Job Applicants

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“When AI hiring tools go wrong, vendors say the employer decides. Employers say the system decided. Samonne Montgomery writes that these are not opposite arguments — they are the same institutional dodge.”

Established Culture, work & education Analysis 10d ago
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AI economy subcontracting labor power essay

Labor Power and the Role of Subcontracting in the AI Economy

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“Work in the AI economy is deliberately organized through an "outsourcing maze," writes the Weizenbaum Institute’s Sana Ahmad, enabling global capital to extract value from workers via layered intermediaries.”

“Work in the AI economy is deliberately organized through an "outsourcing maze," writes the Weizenbaum Institute’s Sana Ahmad, enabling global capital to extract value from workers via layered intermediaries.”

Established Policy & governance Development 4d ago
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European AI firms deploy banned facial recognition India

European AI Firms Scale Banned Facial Recognition Systems in India

2 directory members surfaced this signal.

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“Facial recognition technology supplied by a Spanish firm and largely banned in the EU is running on around 4,000 cameras across India, Investigate Europe reports.”

Established Policy & governance Analysis 15d ago
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judicial ruling on government AI

A Judicial Wake-Up Call on Government by AI

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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 the decision is a landmark for AI accountability.”

“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.”

Established Policy & governance Analysis 4d ago
UN AI panel erases human responsibility essay

How the UN’s Scientific Panel Erases Human Responsibility for AI | TechPolicy.Press

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“The UN Independent International Scientific Panel on AI's assessment is a reference point for AI governance worldwide, writes Eryk Salvaggio. His concern: a definition that obscures human accountability "will carry that blind spot into the policies it infor…”

Established AI research Development 3d ago
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AI systems enable authoritarianism research

Researchers Detail How AI Systems Can Enable Authoritarianism

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“Tim Bernard reviews a new preprint study by Jeba Sania, Marta Ziosi, and Fazl Barez examining how six AI systems across democracies and autocracies embed features that can enable authoritarian practices.”

Established Policy & governance Analysis 17d ago
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US state AI legislation mid-2026 review

Where State AI Legislation Stands Half Way Into 2026 | TechPolicy.Press

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“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.”

“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.”

Established Policy & governance Analysis 15d ago
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research integrity national security AI essay

The Next National Security Challenge Is Research Integrity | TechPolicy.Press

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“Policymakers treat critical infrastructure as physical: power grids, communications networks, transportation systems, and satellites. In the age of generative AI, writes Rachel A. George, another kind deserves equal attention: the institutions that determin…”

“Policymakers treat critical infrastructure as physical: power grids, communications networks, transportation systems, and satellites. In the age of generative AI, writes Rachel A. George, another kind deserves equal attention: the institutions that determin…”

Established Policy & governance Analysis 7d ago
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research integrity national security challenge essay

The Next National Security Challenge Is Research Integrity

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“Policymakers treat critical infrastructure as physical: power grids, communications networks, transportation systems, and satellites. In the age of generative AI, writes Rachel A. George, another kind deserves equal attention: the institutions that determin…”

Established Agents & robotics Development 10d ago
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UN AI Summit 2026 convenes

Can the United Nations Bring the World Together on AI?

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“The UN held its AI for Good Global Summit in Geneva this week, launching a new commission and two standards groups. Chris Stokel-Walker reports on what came out of it.”

“I've spent the last four days running around an airless expo hall in Geneva trying to figure out what the UN thinks it can do to tame AI. Here's what I've learned for @techpolicypress.bsky.social www.techpolicy.press/can-the-unit...”

Established Policy & governance Analysis 3d ago
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European digital sovereignty end essay

Mythos and the Coming End of European Digital Sovereignty

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“The cost of building Europe's own frontier AI capacity may be very large. Igor Sevenard and Richard J. Cook argue the cost of not building it may be even larger, and grow every year as the capability gap widens.”

“Good piece on what's needed for EU AI sovereignty. "A minimum requirement for European success in AI would be resilience due to the ability to weather a Mythos-styled restriction without European industry, defense, and research grinding to a halt." www.tech…”

Established Agents & robotics Analysis 6d ago
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AI agent monitoring scale essay

We Can’t Monitor AI Agents at Scale. Here’s What It Will Take.

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“Madhulika Srikumar (Partnership on AI) & Vinh Nguyen (Council on Foreign Relations) argue regulators and developers agree AI agents must be monitored in real time—but the infrastructure to do it "doesn't exist yet in any mature form for the volume and compl…”

“Madhulika Srikumar (Partnership on AI) & Vinh Nguyen (Council on Foreign Relations) argue regulators and developers agree AI agents must be monitored in real time—but the infrastructure to do it "doesn't exist yet in any mature form for the volume and compl…”

Developing Policy & governance Development 2d ago
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AI systems enable authoritarianism researchers warn

Researchers Detail How AI Systems Can Enable Authoritarianism

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“Tim Bernard reviews a new preprint study by Jeba Sania, Marta Ziosi, and Fazl Barez examining how six AI systems across democracies and autocracies embed features that can enable authoritarian practices.”

Established Policy & governance Analysis 8d ago
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antitrust deflate AI bubble essay

Antitrust Enforcement Can Deflate the AI Bubble Before the Public Pays

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“Sumit Sharma argues antitrust enforcement against Big Tech–AI ownership crossholdings could prevent a popping AI bubble from cascading across the economy, helping to restore the competitive incentives that crossholdings have dampened.”

“Sumit Sharma argues antitrust enforcement against Big Tech–AI ownership crossholdings could prevent a popping AI bubble from cascading across the economy, helping to restore the competitive incentives that crossholdings have dampened.”