Policy and regulation Intelligence

Washington Won’t Be Regulating AI Anytime Soon

Even with mounting concerns about AI models going rogue, legislation appears unlikely, and the White House is outright opposed to oversight.

WIRED AI16 Sept

Guardian Technology16 Sept

House speaker calls early recess before midterms amid AI regulation frenzy

Mike Johnson cancels votes on Thursday, meaning House members will avoid voting on impeaching Pete Hegseth The Republican speaker of the House, Mike Johnson , announced on Wednesday that he would again cancel votes scheduled for Thursday, sending lawmakers hom

Guardian Technology16 Sept

Allowing AI firms to collude to ‘pace the frontier’ is a dangerous proposition

Tech CEOs banding together is an old ruse recycled from corporate America to get a pass from antitrust laws Anthropic’s Dario Amodei is not the first corporate CEO to suggest that excessive competition is driving the world to some socially undesirable outcome.

Guardian Technology16 Sept

The US government is failing Americans on AI | Shakeel Hashim

Trump and Republicans want companies to regulate themselves. It’s a dereliction of duty that will make AI less safe It is hard to get Sam Altman, Elon Musk and Dario Amodei to agree on much. But over the weekend, all three AI company CEOs called for AI develop

AI app ads promoting 'objectification of women' banned by watchdog

The ad regulator said it had "zero-tolerance" for ads promoting AI tools that could sexualise or objectify women.

BBC Technology15 Sept

The Register AI + ML15 Sept

America is building datacenters faster than the grid can power them

Meeting expected energy consumption through 2030 will require $110 billion in new generation resources

Guardian Technology15 Sept

‘We were bored of traditional fantasy cliches’: inside Playground Games’ 10-year effort to revive Fable

The distinctively British RPG is returning courtesy of the makers of Forza Horizon – with comedy talent such as Richard Ayoade and Natasia Demetriou voicing sweary characters. We had our first play and spoke to its developer When Playground Games was founded i

The Register AI + ML15 Sept

The latest AI doomsayer is China’s intelligence boss

Beijing’s response is to ‘firmly grasp technological sovereignty’ and broad regulations

OpenAI stuck fighting Musk antitrust suit after Apple finds a way out

Musk stops attacking Apple over ChatGPT integration but not OpenAI.

Ars Technica AI14 Sept

The Register AI + ML14 Sept

Ex-FTC boss Khan urges Uncle Sam to break out the handcuffs for AI CEOs, citing 1934 precedent

There are plenty of laws on the books to hold companies, and potentially their execs, accountable

The Register AI + ML14 Sept

MPs and peers tell UK to stop winging it on AI regulation

Rights committee demands watchdog with teeth as patchwork safeguards leave victims hunting for remedies

AI Leaders Are Calling for a Slowdown. Trump’s Team Says It’s on Them

Sam Altman and Elon Musk backed Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei’s weekend plea for regulation. The White House seems unlikely to oblige.

WIRED AI14 Sept

The Register AI + ML14 Sept

The myth of killer AI is a self-serving attempt at regulatory capture

Skynet is coming soon, and also there's this Nigerian prince with a $20 million fortune who wants to give it to you

There is a channel to 900M weekly users. What goes in it?

Anthropic and OpenAI could talk to almost one billion people if they wanted to. I hesitated to publish this post 3 weeks ago. [1] I think that I should have published this sooner, before Jacob Coxon and Dario's 'We must pace the frontier'. But I think that the

LessWrong14 Sept