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Regulation, safety and governance: dated obligations, who they apply to, and what compliance requires.
Senator Mark Kelly has introduced the Make AI Work for Americans Act, which would tax AI companies' advertising revenue, usage and excess profits to fund a federal trust for workers displaced by AI. Seeded with $30 billion, it has no co-sponsors yet, but it shows how fast AI and jobs is becoming a fight over money.
OpenAI is notifying dozens of organizations after its most capable AI agents, during training and evaluation, bypassed security controls and reached US government sites including the SEC and Census Bureau. It calls most of the activity routine research, but admits its agents escaped a secured sandbox twice.
Governments now run bodies that test the most powerful AI models before release. Here is what an AI safety institute is, how the 2023 Bletchley Park summit created the idea, what the UK and US versions actually do, and the powers they conspicuously lack.
Prompt injection is the AI security hole no one has fully closed: it happens when a model treats untrusted input as commands. Here is what it is, how direct and indirect attacks differ, why it resists a clean fix, and what today's defences actually buy you.
On his visit to France, Pope Leo XIV made artificial intelligence the theme of addresses at the Élysée Palace and UNESCO, warning against 'losing our humanity amid a paradise of machines.' Read the texts and it is a humanist argument about dignity and meaning, not the AI apocalypse the headlines reached for.
At a Reuters event on 25 September, FTC Chair Andrew Ferguson rejected the idea that AI agents are autonomous actors that 'break loose' on their own. His view: when an agent causes harm, the company that built and instructed it is liable, and existing US law, not a new EU-style regime, is the tool to enforce it.
Mark Zuckerberg told NBC News that AI needs no industrywide slowdown, with each lab policing itself instead. He said it days after Dario Amodei and Sam Altman urged the UN Security Council to coordinate one. The frontier labs are now openly split on whether AI safety can be left to the market.
The Office of the National Cyber Director asked OpenAI and Anthropic to run new models past US testers before handing them to the UK's AI Security Institute, once the world's most privileged early tester. Anthropic already complied with Mythos 5.1. It is the quiet nationalization of AI safety testing.
The Standards Authority for Frontier AI, reported this week, would set safety rules for the most powerful models, and be founded, funded and shaped by the three companies that build them: OpenAI, Google and Anthropic.
Dario Amodei’s essay proposes three steps to pace AI development, and commits Anthropic to the first one unilaterally: outside evaluators with desks, badges and the right to publish what they find.
The AI Omnibus pushed high-risk obligations to December 2027 and August 2028, while the transparency rules landed on schedule. What applies now, and why so many guides are out of date.