AI Frontiers

Subtitle: Utilitarians at AI companies imagine a cosmos filled with blissful AIs. They might risk human extinction to achieve it. Dan Hendrycks, Director of the Center for AI Safety — September 9, 2026 For millennia...

Subtitle: Several US states have moved to ban AI legal status and reject the possibility of AI consciousness. We should keep our options open instead. Heather Alexander, Cofounder of the Lab for the Future of...

Subtitle: Society is not prepared for a flood of agents. We need new protocols and standards, such as Agent ID, to make agents accountable to our legal and financial systems. Gillian Hadfield, Professor of AI Alignment...

Subtitle: For years, the federal government has required insurers to price hypothetical terrorist attacks. It should run the same exercise for the most severe AI risks. Daniel Carpenter, Professor of Government at...

Subtitle: As AI makes legal work significantly cheaper, the burden on courts may increase. Some areas of law could see precedent shift faster as a result. Henry Thompson, Professor of Economics at the University of...

Subtitle: New EU and California laws require AI companies, and eventually camera makers, to sign their media outputs. It's our best chance to tell what's real. Eddan Katz, Head of Policy & Gov Affairs at Encypher —...

Subtitle: If AI reaches the point where it can do the cognitive work humans do, robots will proliferate. Standard data on US industry implies a fully automated economy could double its output roughly every year. Damon...

Subtitle: Skeptics of an AI slowdown deal with China say we’d need futuristic tech to make it cheat-proof. Instead, the US and China could just give auditors comprehensive access to major AI companies. Felix Choussat...

Subtitle: Researchers who find dangerous flaws in frontier models have nowhere safe to report them. AI needs the disclosure system that cybersecurity built decades ago. Rich Barton-Cooper, Research Manager at MATS and...

Subtitle: Letting AI developers pick their own safety auditors creates a conflict of interest. Requiring liability insurance instead would put insurers’ own capital behind risk assessments. Gabriel Weil, Professor at...

Drones are cheap, disposable, and the future of war. Over the past four years, we have seen platforms, missiles, and heavy infantry become increasingly obsolete in the face of $500 drones carrying a pack of explosives—a...

In September 2025, the state of California made an AI assistant, Poppy, generally available to employees, to help them “explore AI's productivity benefits.” The following month, the North Dakota Legislative Council...

How should governments regulate the most advanced AI systems? One possible answer is that they should not. Libertarian-minded writers have made the case for a culture of “permissionless innovation” for AI development...

Since the late 1950s, Mutual Assured Destruction (MAD) has served as a limiting factor on great-power conflict. The doctrine holds that, if two opposing nations have nuclear weapons that can survive one another's...

On June 12, the Trump administration issued an order requiring Anthropic to suspend access to its two most advanced AI models—Fable 5 and Mythos 5—for non-American nationals, just days after their public release. The...