Opinion: Colorado’s AI-regulation missteps offer lessons for state and federal lawmakers

The Real Question to Ask About AI Governance

MIT Sloan Management Review has published a piece reframing the central debate around AI governance, suggesting that prevailing discussions may be focused on the wrong questions when it comes to overseeing artificial intelligence systems.

Why this matters: How AI governance questions are framed shapes which risks receive regulatory attention — and poorly scoped frameworks may leave gaps in protections against surveillance, automated decision-making, and unchecked data collection affecting ordinary people.

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Bernie Sanders Saw This Coming

For decades, the senator has argued that concentrated wealth threatened American democracy. Now he’s betting that frustration with Big Tech, billionaires, and unchecked AI is reaching a tipping point.

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Dysregulation and the economics of AI policy

Dysregulation and the economics of AI policy  Oxford Economics

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‘There’s this deep mystery of what, actually, is this thing?’: the philosopher inside Google DeepMind AI

Since 2017, Iason Gabriel has worked at the tech giant, trying to anticipate – and think through – the impact of AI. But as commercial and geopolitical pressures escalate, can ethicists make any difference? In 2017, a 33-year-old political philosopher named Iason Gabriel was told by a friend that he ought to apply for a job at DeepMind, the London-based subsidiary of Google where much of its AI research was concentrated. The suggestion was not an obvious one. Gabriel was a cheerful but intense junior academic with a passion for Vipassana meditation and what his brother calls “enthusiastic” ro…

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Students who value AI ethics may regulate their learning more effectively

Students who value AI ethics may regulate their learning more effectively  EdTech Innovation Hub

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Herta says AI sandbox lays ground for AI Act-compliant public facial recognition

Facial recognition firm Herta is positioning an AI regulatory sandbox as a pathway to deploying public facial recognition systems that meet EU AI Act requirements, framing compliance testing as preparation for lawful real-world deployment.

Why this matters: Regulatory sandboxes designed to enable compliant mass facial recognition in public spaces raise serious civil liberties concerns — normalizing persistent biometric surveillance of individuals who have no meaningful ability to opt out.

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