What's new in AI governance, safety, jobs and society

Machines are tools, not persons. Today, some propose granting these systems rights, or even legal personhood. Such an approach risks obscuring human responsibility and leaving those who suffer harm to confront a faceless entity.

Alternatively, a second idea suggested by Greg Ip of the Wall Street Journal, Nobel Prize winners Paul Krugman and Daron Acemoglu (with co-authors Andrea Manera and Pascual Restrepo) is to rectify the current imbalance of taxation on labor and capita...

I support a pause in development while we figure out how to make these systems safe, and especially a pause in the development of agents.

On each in-scope decision, a runtime measurement, the Semantic Deviation Index quantifies how far the agent's resolved meaning sits from the authorized one. A Deterministic Gate turns that measurement into an enforced decision before execution author...

AI adoption is fueling net workforce growth.

Independent third-party AI auditors will act like financial accounting firms: investigating and verifying safety protocols and legal compliance. They’re a critical part of the safeguards needed around powerful frontier AI models.

And as a first step, I suggest that interested parties and countries can come together to launch a pilot around AI incident reporting. We can start by agreeing on a common set of incident categories and information to be shared. We can explore how pa...

I used to always think that, you know, alignment will just fall out. I no longer believe that. So I think this alignment thing may be a harder, different problem.

I wish to speak in support of Amendment 41, in the name of the noble Baroness, Lady Harding, to which I have added my name. We heard during Committee not only about the out-of-control behaviour from agents running AI models from OpenAI, Google and Me...

AI may be a great calculator, but in business, intelligence is mostly judgment. AI does not understand accountability, trust, culture, unwritten rules, ethical trade-offs or fairness, all of which shape reputational risk and ultimately drive revenue ...

Open-weight models have been a boon for defenders. When Hugging Face investigated how OpenAI-powered agents penetrated its systems, proprietary models refused some of the forensic work, but the Chinese open-weight model GLM-5.2 helped reconstruct the...

The AI Biosecurity Lab will be a major new global institution bringing together world-leading scientific expertise to keep the country safe.

External evaluators should be embedded at AI companies, but they should not be restricted to AI safety researchers, and they should not be selected by the company being evaluated. Rather, they should represent communities across society, address a mu...

Unsolicited, AI-generated robocalls to voters’ cell phones — when both robocalls and AI have a proven track record of spreading lies and can be particularly deceiving when combined — aren’t just a nuisance; they’re downright dangerous for our democra...

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