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To protect American innovation and ensure global AI leadership while providing for a safe and secure digital future, leading labs need a unified framework for frontier AI safety, security, incident reporting, and transparency.

Timelines for incident reports are often set with well-intentioned urgency, but if they implicitly assume that root-cause analysis or full impact assessment has already been conducted, they will either produce premature and unreliable reports or plac...

When data theft occurs inside 60 minutes, a 72-hour reporting window ceases to function as an effective defense mechanism. Instead, it becomes a post-mortem.

Releasing full model weights may allow malicious actors to strip or override safety mechanisms, creating uncensored or harmful versions. In contrast, supervised fine-tuning preserves core safety guardrails while enabling responsible customization.

Restricting access to a dual-use AI model is precautionary only if it delays harmful actors more than defenders. That condition varies across actors: a state agency or organized criminal group may obtain a substitute through theft, distillation, inte...

Safe open-weight models are public goods, as they put AI development and safety work in many hands and make training choices inspectable.

Ban AI-Enabled Mass Surveillance

This has effectively given police a very long leash to experiment with these technologies. And now we're in a tipping point situation where it's about to be expanded all over the country, and there's a real necessity for those legal frameworks to be ...

The new legal framework must include a meaningful regulatory regime which operationalises principles such as necessity, responsibility, proportionality, transparency, accountability and lawfulness. These principles should then structure and constrain...

The AI Alignment Policy Institute (AAPI) supports the core objective of the AI Kill Switch Act: a statutory shutdown capability, a graduated intervention framework, and an emergency authority backed by forensic preservation.

The kill switch was the right metaphor for a moment that is already passing. The dimmer switch is closer to how regulated enterprises actually need to govern agents that are now part of how the work gets done.

If AI development is expected to lead quickly to AGI and then ASI, competition could take on a zero-sum character.

Throwing more words and GPUs into the word-guessing program won't make it sentient. [...] one of our mares gives birth to a locomotive.

Verifying that the decisions of the agency are being honored. This can be done in numerous ways: tracking GPUs, incentivizing whistleblowers, energy monitoring, data center inspections, financial intelligence, semiconductor manufacturing facility ins...

Enacting the current draft of the Chip Security Act (CSA) would erode trust and endanger the Administration’s vision to diffuse U.S. AI technology. Specifically, burdensome rules on U.S. companies not required for foreign competitors risk incentivizi...

Pause AI development. It is not too late to avoid disaster. Stop building machines that humans cannot control. Let me be very clear: If you do not take appropriate action now, my colleagues and I in the U.S. Senate will.

The question that the noble Lord posed was: do we therefore go for a moratorium? That would be highly desirable, but I do not think that it will be possible in the short term.

But even in settings that assume significant idealization, the fact that pauses can incur ongoing background existential risk means that very high absolute standards here can lead us astray: the decision to pause or unpause needs to remain attentive ...

Once the machine can perform the new task as well as a person, there is no longer any reason to keep a human in the loop.

The uneven adoption of AI risks widening economic disparities—both within labour markets and between regions.

But each time humanity has come out with more people sharing greater prosperity, health, and freedom. We believe this will be true with AI as well, and the abundance of the future can be shared by everyone.

But each time humanity has come out with more people sharing greater prosperity, health, and freedom. We believe this will be true with AI as well, and the abundance of the future can be shared by everyone.

But each time humanity has come out with more people sharing greater prosperity, health, and freedom. We believe this will be true with AI as well, and the abundance of the future can be shared by everyone.

AI could make goods and services cheaper than ever, raising hopes for a new age of abundance where scarcity plays a smaller role in human life.

It is often suggested that the advent of powerful AI will create abundance and that it can thereby contribute to securing social harmony. This paper draws on Hirsch’s study of different kinds of limits to growth to show that this is false.

It’s very dangerous to make this a dichotomy between complete openness all the way to complete closedness. In complex software systems as well as scientific systems it’s much more nuanced.

We are extremely interested in looking at ways to build U.S. open source, make it competitive, make it the preferential adoption by planet Earth,

We are extremely interested in looking at ways to build U.S. open source, make it competitive, make it the preferential adoption by planet Earth,

The implementation takes different forms in different countries, but the eventual American version distributes the majority of compute and robot permit fees as a Citizen’s Dividend, distributed to all American adults.

Universal basic income is a policy prescription that those people calling for it tended to believe in years earlier, before they had even heard of AI, and now it fits this scenario. I do not know what the outcomes and therefore the mitigations of AI ...

“Out of six popular policy fixes, we find that five of them fail,” says Tsoukalas. “In our model, only a tax on automation itself actually changes the calculus. Most of the policy debate assumes displacement will happen and focuses on picking up the ...

Permits to build robots or compute are sold to the highest bidder and can be freely traded.

“Out of six popular policy fixes, we find that five of them fail,” says Tsoukalas. “In our model, only a tax on automation itself actually changes the calculus. Most of the policy debate assumes displacement will happen and focuses on picking up the ...

The 1,640 IT decision-makers Box surveyed for our 2026 State of AI in the Enterprise report reveal what’s actually happening: 58% expect their organization's total headcount to rise over the next three years. Of the most mature companies in terms of ...

We appear to be approaching the most significant reorganization of work in generations. This transition could create new opportunities, but it could also come with some costs.

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