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Browse by topic: Law and regulation · Safety and security · Governance and public debate

Law and regulation

• How the EU Kids Act Can Promote Interoperability for Online Safety · Aahil Sheikh · Tech Policy Press · September 23, 2026 — Sheikh argues that proposed third-party guardian tools could give families more control over online safety, provided privacy and data-sharing risks are addressed. Sheikh writes in a personal capacity.
• AI Overviews and the Limits of the Search Safe Harbor · Ignacio Cofone · Lawfare · September 22, 2026 — Cofone argues that a provisional German injunction treating Google’s generated overview as Google’s own statement signals a narrower search safe harbor for generative answers. The ruling is subject to appeal.
• The Curious Left-Wing Argument Against New AI Regulations · Jonathan Chait · The Atlantic · September 21, 2026 — Chait argues that existing criminal and product-liability law is inadequate for frontier-AI risks and critiques anti-monopoly skepticism toward new regulation.
• AI Is an Elite Crime Spree · Matt Stoller · BIG · September 18, 2026 — Stoller argues that enforcing existing laws against powerful AI companies is central to safety and that new rules require political willingness to enforce them.

Safety and security

• It’s Time to Cry Wolf Over A.I. · Thomas L. Friedman · The New York Times · September 22, 2026 · Paywalled — Friedman argues that the United States and China should jointly defend critical infrastructure and agree on guardrails for increasingly capable AI. He supports liability for harms and slowing development until reliable control is established.
• Trump and Xi Should Talk About Worms · Howard Fei · Tech Policy Press · September 22, 2026 — Fei argues for U.S.–China incident notifications and limits on AI-enabled worms targeting civilian infrastructure, using shared cyber risks as a basis for cooperation. Fei is a master’s candidate at Johns Hopkins SAIS focused on AI policy and U.S.–China technology competition. See United States policy on catastrophic AI risk.
• The Forensic Gap in AI Safety Laws · Christopher David LaRoche · Lawfare · September 16, 2026 — LaRoche argues that incident-reporting laws need evidence-preservation duties and investigative capacity so regulators can reconstruct serious AI failures.
• AI safety requires more than just slowing our pace · Stuart Russell · The Guardian · September 15, 2026 — Russell argues that frontier development should proceed only after systems meet concrete safety requirements, rather than relying on a slower development timetable.

Governance and public debate

• Congress and the AI race · Creator not identified; contributor uncredited · AI Law Wiki · September 24, 2026 — The AI-generated cartoon satirizes Congress’s slow response to AI development as technology companies race ahead. Click the image on the file page to view it larger.
• Who Is AI Risk For? Centering People in the AI Risk Conversation · Jenny Domino and Jen Weedon · Tech Policy Press · September 23, 2026 — Domino and Weedon argue that AI-risk assessments should complement technical measures with a human-rights focus on affected people, institutional accountability and remedies. Domino is a Harvard Law School S.J.D. candidate and Oversight Board policy officer; Weedon is a Columbia University researcher and lecturer.
• Bangladesh's AI law was written by the companies it's meant to regulate · Shoumya Chowdhury · Pursuit, University of Melbourne · September 22, 2026 — Chowdhury argues that industry members on the steering committee for Bangladesh’s draft national AI policy create a regulatory-capture risk and calls for independent oversight. He discloses employment with Bangladesh’s Ministry of Public Administration while on study leave.
• The UN’s AI Agenda Must Prioritize Undersea Cables · Jane Munga · Tech Policy Press · September 22, 2026 — Munga argues that AI governance should include undersea-cable protection, faster repair and more resilient connectivity, with particular attention to African countries. Munga is a fellow in the Africa Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. See United Nations.
• AI is generating a new wave of economic populism. It could be a tipping point · Robert Reich · The Guardian · September 22, 2026 — Reich argues that AI-driven inequality and opposition to data centres could intensify anti-corporate economic populism and reshape U.S. party politics.
• The AI (policy) bubble? · Brendan Malone · X · September 21, 2026 — Malone questions the rapid growth of AI-policy advocacy and argues that shared funders warrant closer scrutiny of claims of independent consensus. The author discloses using Claude for the numerical analysis and ChatGPT to draft the findings. See Organizations in AI Law and Policy.

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