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Human Rights Experts Must Influence Age Assurance Standards
Mandatory age assurance for social media risks widespread surveillance and rights violations. Human rights experts must engage in technical standards-setting to prevent 'rights-washing' and ensure privacy-preserving design.
Moving Beyond Declarations: Building Global AI Governance Architecture
The UN's Global Dialogue on AI must shift from symbolic consensus-building to creating concrete, inclusive institutional architecture that empowers the Global Majority to govern AI.
Import AI 463: Robotics, Infrastructure, and the Future of Human Agency
This issue covers NVIDIA's new autonomous robotics framework, Tencent's 10,000-GPU diagnostic tools, the historical difficulty of predicting AI's societal impact, and the potential for AI to render human control vestigial.
Accountability and Transparency in AI Infrastructure Expansion
The Southern Environmental Law Center (SELC) is challenging the rapid, unpermitted deployment of hyperscale data centers, arguing that current regulatory systems are failing to manage the environmental and public health impacts of massive energy and water consumption.
The Limits of Export Controls in the Age of AI Capabilities
The US government's recent restriction and subsequent easing of access to Anthropic's Mythos 5 model highlights a fundamental regulatory crisis: traditional export controls designed for physical goods are ill-suited for cloud-hosted AI capabilities.
Moving Beyond Bans: Implementing Safety by Design in the UK
The UK's proposed social media ban for under-16s is a symbolic gesture that fails to address systemic product risks. The incoming government should instead leverage the existing Online Safety Act to mandate 'safety by design'—treating digital platforms like other consumer goods that must be proven safe before release.
Moving Beyond Operation-Level Oversight for AI Agents
Current AI governance fails because it focuses on individual operation approvals rather than the cumulative outcomes of agentic sequences, creating a dangerous gap between human intent and machine execution.
CRS AI Testing Reveals High Failure Rate for Legislative Summaries
The Congressional Research Service found that less than 3% of AI-generated bill summaries met its quality standards, highlighting the need for specialized models and human-in-the-loop oversight.
Secret Service Mobile Security Failures and Oversight Challenges
A DHS Inspector General report reveals that the Secret Service's reliance on insecure personal devices and poor management of government-issued hardware has created significant security risks for protectees and employees.
Beyond the Human-in-the-Loop: Defining Meaningful AI Governance
The presence of a human reviewer is a procedural step, not a governance framework. Meaningful oversight requires institutional authority, clear escalation paths, and the power to override automated systems.
Education Department CIO Office Gutted by 2025 Reduction-in-Force
A Department of Education OIG report reveals that a 2025 reduction-in-force campaign cut the Office of the Chief Information Officer's staff by 52%, leaving critical cybersecurity and IT oversight suboffices entirely vacant.
Private AI Governance is No Substitute for Public Law
Private companies using contractual 'red lines' to govern government AI use are undemocratic, brittle, and ultimately displace the political urgency required for durable, legislated civil liberties protections.
EU Debates Child Safety: Age Limits and Enforcement Challenges
EU lawmakers are pressuring the Commission to harmonize child safety rules and improve enforcement of the Digital Services Act, as member states increasingly adopt fragmented national age-verification measures.
Prioritizing Textual Misinformation in AI Policy
While visual deepfakes capture public attention, research shows AI-generated text is more persuasive and pervasive. Policy must shift toward 'preventive corrective information' to build user resilience.
House Passes Legislation to Mandate SBA AI Oversight and Reporting
The House passed the SBA Artificial Intelligence Utilization Act to mandate annual reporting on agency AI use, following a GAO report that identified chronic noncompliance with existing federal transparency requirements.
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