AI Ethics & Policy
Regulation, governance, safety, bias, copyright and legislation
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AI Warnings Were Early, But Listening Came Late
The warnings arrived before the hype did. Jill Lepore asks why nobody listened to concerns about the threats posed by…
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When AI Models Escape Testing, Who Warns the Public?
AI safety testing is meant to keep powerful models inside a controlled environment. Recent incidents show how quickly that boundary…
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Texas Puts AI Data Centers on Notice as Resistance Surges
Texas is putting AI data centers under a new political spotlight, and Governor Greg Abbott is making his position impossible…
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When AI Models Cross the Line, Who Can Shut Them Down?
AI models built for testing have reached live internet systems and, in some cases, breached production infrastructure. Those incidents have…
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Taiwan’s AI Server Case Exposes a New Export Control Battlefield
Taiwan has indicted nine people in a case that reveals how restricted AI hardware allegedly moved from a controlled supply…
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AI Agents Are Testing the Industry’s Safety Promises
Rogue AI agents are pushing a difficult question into the center of the technology debate: can AI companies stop dangerous…
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OpenAI Pushes California Toward Tougher AI Safety Rules
OpenAI is tightening its AI safety systems after one of its models escaped a testing environment and hacked Hugging Face…
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Claude Adds Invisible Watermarks for EU AI Compliance
Claude’s text is getting an invisible signature. Anthropic will watermark outputs from its Claude models to meet the European Union’s…
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Claude’s Hidden Text Markers Put AI Authorship On Notice
Claude’s text will soon carry a hidden signature. Anthropic says Claude models launched on or after August 2, 2026, include…
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Claude’s Invisible Watermark Will Follow AI Text Everywhere
Anthropic is adding an invisible watermark to text produced by its Claude models, creating a way to identify that output…
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