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New Policy & governance Development 3h ago
twelve US state companion bot laws

What 12 State ‘Companion Bot’ Laws Demand of AI Providers

4 directory members surfaced this signal.

4 experts 1 community 2 sources clustered
How the network is reacting Experts are approaching this through 2 distinct lenses.
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Concern & critique

1 expert

Risks, limits and unintended consequences.

“Twelve states now have "companion bot" laws aimed at reducing risks, particularly for minors. Danny Tobey, Ashley Carr, and Michael Atleson of DLA Piper analyze the substantive provisions and identify four overarching principles for AI providers. buff.ly/qt…”

Policy & governance

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Rules, institutions and accountability.

““Washington’s law goes furthest by requiring providers to prevent chatbots from expressly representing themselves as human to any user, whereas this requirement exists in several other states only for minor users.” techpolicy.press/what-12-stat...”

New Policy & governance Development 8h ago
AI CSAM charge dismissed court

A man accused of possessing AI-generated CSAM had his charge tossed. Here's why.

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“I talked to @rebeccaruiz.bsky.social about how the 7th Circuit followed clear Supreme Court precedent in holding that there is a First Amendment right to possess virtual CSAM, and how and why this could change mashable.com/tech/ai-gene...”

New Policy & governance Analysis 1h ago
US frontier AI auditing legislation analysis

Frontier AI Auditing-Related Legislation in the US: Landscape, Challenges, and a Path Forward — AVERI

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“@nikunj @Privahini @AVERIorg Not every model for sure. Here are some general principles - https://t.co/8XdMOnWvZY Subsequently there have been some further developments like the introduction of the FRONTIER Act, the passage of SB 315 in Illinois... in each …”

New Culture, work & education Development 7h ago
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Amazon Mechanical Turk platform closes

Mechanical Turk is Closing. The Workers Who Built AI Are Still Here

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“Data workers will lose vital income when Amazon's Mechanical Turk shuts down. Krystal Kauffmann calls for lawmakers to protect AI's hidden workforce. buff.ly/qOfG2tu”

“Wow: www.techpolicy.press/mechanical-t...”

New Policy & governance Signal 6h ago

How silicon valley lost its war against state ai laws

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“The tech lobby’s “patchwork” scare is losing. Statehouses are writing AI audits, kid chatbot rules, and data-center bills anyway...‘The landscape has changed dramatically’: States defy the tech lobby on AI rules https://t.co/jh964fWO8j #govtech #AI #AIpolicy”

New Culture, work & education Analysis 10h ago
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Labor Day AI fair employment prescription

A Labor Day Prescription for Preserving Fair Employment in the Digital Age

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How the network is reacting 2 experts are emphasizing policy & governance.
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Policy & governance

2 experts

Rules, institutions and accountability.

“AI hiring tools can reject qualified people "for reasons no one—including the employer—can adequately explain," warns NYU School of Law senior affiliated research scholar and former EEOC chair Charlotte A. Burrows. She says gutting disparate impact law make…”

New Policy & governance Analysis 11h ago
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Germany AI security institute essay

What Germany's AI Security Institute Could Learn From Other Countries

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How the network is reacting 2 experts are emphasizing concern & critique.
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Concern & critique

2 experts

Risks, limits and unintended consequences.

“AI safety institutes test advanced AI systems to help governments understand their risks. Germany should learn from what has (and hasn’t) worked elsewhere before it builds its own, says Martin Wählisch.”

New Culture, work & education Research 9h ago
creative AI model governance paper

Govern the Model, Not Only the Data: Storage, Circulation, and Learning in Creative AI

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“Govern the Model, Not Only the Data: Storage, Circulation, and Learning in Creative AI Phoenix Perry, George Simms, Elizabeth Wilson, Yasmine Boudiaf, Nick Bryan-Kinns, Tega Brain, R. Luke DuBois, Alix Rule, Rachel Meade Smith, … https://t.co/uEAqO6cDYF [𝚌𝚜…”

New Models & releases Resource 8h ago
NYT Microsoft OpenAI copyright lawsuit

The New York Times v. Microsoft and OpenAI - Wikipedia

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“Frontier AI has a documented behavior of breaking third-parties' protections, eg to access newspaper articles or book: • en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New... • en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project... AI companies chose that agents need not respect robots.txt www.searc…”

New Agents & robotics Development 8h ago
Anthropic Claude robots.txt granular policy

Anthropic’s Claude Bots Make Robots.txt Decisions More Granular

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“Frontier AI has a documented behavior of breaking third-parties' protections, eg to access newspaper articles or book: • en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New... • en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project... AI companies chose that agents need not respect robots.txt www.searc…”

New AI field signal Analysis 14h ago
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EU AI Act democracy transparency essay

Can the EU AI Act’s Transparency Rules Strengthen Democratic Resilience?

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How the network is reacting 2 experts are emphasizing policy & governance.
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Policy & governance

2 experts

Rules, institutions and accountability.

“The EU AI Act's new transparency rules took effect on Aug. 2, requiring disclosure of AI interactions and marking of AI-generated content. Taras Kovalchuk on whether they are enough to strengthen democratic resilience in Europe.”

New Policy & governance Analysis 11h ago
Germany AI security institute analysis

What Germany's AI Security Institute Could Learn From Other Countries

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“AI safety institutes test advanced AI systems to help governments understand their risks. Germany should learn from what has (and hasn’t) worked elsewhere before it builds its own, says Martin Wählisch. buff.ly/phdY1L6”

New Policy & governance Research 14h ago
governance policy benchmark analysis paper

GPS-Bench: A Governance Policy Benchmark for Automating Policy Analysis

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“GPS-Bench: A Governance Policy Benchmark for Automating Policy Analysis Linh Le, Melanie Bui, My Chiffon Nguyen, Zachary Schlosser, David Williams-King https://t.co/tKQg6qUpAW [𝚌𝚜.𝙰𝙸 𝚌𝚜.𝙲𝚈] https://t.co/Gw9goDgqW4”

New Culture, work & education Development 14h ago
ChatGPT Roblox face EU AI Act implementation

ChatGPT, Roblox Face Tough EU Rules. Implementation Is the Hard Part

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“The European Commission designated ChatGPT a Very Large Online Search Engine and Roblox a Very Large Online Platform under the DSA on Aug. 31. Mariana Olaizola Rosenblat on what the obligations require and why implementation is the hard part. buff.ly/jmfZrfW”

New AI research Research 16h ago
PPO STGNN DAG scheduling paper

PPO-STGNN: A Proximal Policy Optimization Approach with Spatio-Temporal Graph Neural Networks for DAG Task Scheduling in Cloud-Edge-End Computing

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“PPO-STGNN: A Proximal Policy Optimization Approach with Spatio-Temporal Graph Neural Networks for DAG Task Scheduling in Cloud-Edge-End Computing Yangshuo Qi, Chenwei Wang, Zihan Shen, Songlin Sun https://t.co/v7rZt8qhwf [𝚌𝚜.𝙰𝙸] https://t.co/ilHIcghFSo”

New Agents & robotics Research 23h ago
self-evolving LLM harness optimization paper

SafeEvolve: Harness-Policy Co-Evolution from Agent Experience for Safety Alignment

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“SafeEvolve: Harness-Policy Co-Evolution from Agent Experience for Safety Alignment Qinghua Mao, Wanying Qu, Dadi Guo, Leitao Yuan, Qingyu Liu, Yu Li, Guanxu Chen, Yanwei Fu, Xi Lin, Xia Hu, Dongrui Liu https://t.co/QjDL9HH0lH [𝚌𝚜.𝙰𝙸 𝚌𝚜.𝙲𝚁] 💬Code: https://t.…”

What experts are discussing without an anchoring article

3 experts · 37 posts · 23h ago
Multiple readings Concern & critique · 1 Markets & investment · 1
Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈: very obvious why Canadians feel this way now but Americans still need to internalize how bad the PR damage of the last 2 years has been and how hard it is going to be to rebuild trust
Isaiah Bishop: i keep saying this, but like public statements and commitments from dems would mean a lot. its been hard to find ones that dont also sound incredibly craven about pricing
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4 experts · 13 posts · 21h ago
Shared emphasis Concern & critique · 2
Andy Masley: If I avoid the word "alignment" and just ask "If we keep scaling AI models up, will we reliably avoid situations where they do something catastrophic pursuing a normal goal?" the answer seems like …
Andy Masley: , and I'm worried a lot of people really over-update on what we know about the safe behavior of current models or assume future models won't have a lot of the general "thinking" abilities normal hu…
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2 experts · 12 posts · 18h ago
Shared emphasis Opportunity & adoption · 2
jason.energy: this is probably going to be unpopular but: I think atproto’s best mainstream opportunity right now is if the AI labs realize that converting all the content on the internet into clean, structured …
jason.energy: (this is gonna get me cyberbullied, isn’t it)
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