The Who's Who of AI

“America.gov does not do pronouns. Any pronouns. (Courtesy of my daughter!) aifails.substack.com/p/pronouns” evidence ↗

“"Amnesty International finds that standalone generative AI systems, based on unlawful web scraping, depend on mass invasions of privacy by design, and are fundamentally incompatible with international human rights law."” evidence ↗

“The Pentagon’s AI dependencies stem from “a decades-long shift toward privatization of the US military’s weaponry and technology needs,” write Amos Toh of the Brennan Center for Justice and Margaret Mullins of the Vanderbilt Policy Accelerator.” evidence ↗

“California and the EU now require AI developers to summarize their training data. But “uncovering the contents of training datasets alone is insufficient to enable meaningful accountability,” writes Vanderbilt’s Will Orr, who outlines four ways to make data…” evidence ↗

“The military is “by and large renting access” to the AI shaping its targeting decisions, write the Brennan Center’s Amos Toh and Vanderbilt Policy Accelerator’s Margaret Mullins. That leaves it limited capacity to oversee systems with “life-and-death stakes.”” evidence ↗

“The UK-US Tech Prosperity Deal has returned to the negotiating table, but its revival remains partial. Megan Kirkwood writes that renewed talks raise questions about whether the UK will trade away digital regulatory powers in pursuit of closer ties with Was…” evidence ↗

“In the first installment of The Edge Dialogues, a new series hosted by Tech Policy Press and Georgetown Law’s Privacy Center, Dr. Alondra Nelson of the Institute for Advanced Study joined us to discuss AI manifestos, power and who gets to build the future. …” evidence ↗

“Fair use benefits everyone - Open AI openai.com/index/fair-use… #AI #FairUse #copyright” evidence ↗

“Upcoming appearances: * Kilkenny: Kilkenomics, Nov 6-8 kilkenomics.com * Courtenay: Enshittification (Sid Williams Theatre Society), Nov 10 www.sidwilliamstheatre.com/events/cory-... * Vancouver: BC Policy Solutions Gala, Nov 12 bcpolicy.ca/gala/” evidence ↗

“Rewindable interactive proofs (RIPs) is a model of interactive proofs that allows efficient oversight of AI computations by enabling verifiers to restore AI states. This leads to quick, scalable verification without requiring a truthful prover, boosting eff…” evidence ↗

“On a new episode of the Policy Minded podcast, RAND's Steph Guerra discusses a layered defense strategy to guard against AI-enabled bioweapons.” evidence ↗

““If someone wants to use my face, my voice or my image, they ask me first….There’s a conversation. This isn’t a new idea or a complicated legal framework, it’s simply how we treat each other. CONSENT ISN’T A BARRIER TO CREATIVITY, IT’S THE FOUNDATION OF IT.…” evidence ↗

““If someone wants to use my face, my voice or my image, they ask me first….There’s a conversation. This isn’t a new idea or a complicated legal framework, it’s simply how we treat each other. CONSENT ISN’T A BARRIER TO CREATIVITY, IT’S THE FOUNDATION OF IT.…” evidence ↗

“Mark MacCarthy of Georgetown University warns “the overexpansion of AI data centers is so large that the contraction is likely to have substantial macroeconomic consequences.” He says Congress should still act on ratepayers, safety, liability and AI misinfo…” evidence ↗

“The USCO successfully defended this position in multiple courts, triumphing over plaintiffs who were so persistent they got the Supreme Court to weigh in on the issue (SCOTUS ruled it didn't warrant attention): pluralistic.net/2026/03/03/i...” evidence ↗

“Is that enough? We may need to transnationalise transnational infrastructure. Which interestingly might leave them a bit more autonomy. But how can we trust any one government with the essential infrastructure of many? The whole point of antitrust is too la…” evidence ↗

““The Dutch government said it would replace 25,000 workers with AI. This is about 16% of their civil workforce.” blog.andrewyang.com/p/the-domino...” evidence ↗

“"Kaira is part of a competition led by researchers at the University of New South Wales, which pits teams against one another to manipulate social media to win a simulated vote" #disinformation training - hopefully completed by regulation discussion? www.ab…” evidence ↗