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Book Review: “The Scaling Era” as a State of Mind

The Scaling Era reveals how AI's "bigger is better" dogma became trillion-dollar orthodoxy, exposing dangerous gaps between rapid capability growth and…

Jun 5 •

May 2025

AI Safety Needs a Shared Playbook—Before It’s Too Late

Without standardized AI risk evaluations, we risk missing early warning signs. A shared framework is urgently needed.

May 28

We Should Not Allow Powerful AI to Be Trained in Secret: The Case for Increased Public Transparency

Powerful AI systems approaching human-level intelligence (AGI) may arrive within years, but current secrecy in corporate and government labs risks…

May 27 •

Sarah Hastings-Woodhouse

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Daniel Kokotajlo

It’s Too Hard for Small and Medium-Sized Businesses to Comply With the EU AI Act: Here’s What to Do

May 19 •

What the UK Can Learn from California's Frontier AI Regulation Battle

Youth-led insights on balancing innovation, safety, and transparency in emerging tech policy debates.

May 14

Securing Remote External GPAI Evaluations

Independent, secure third-party evaluations are emerging as a critical step for safeguarding for powerful general-purpose AI systems.

May 12 •

Alejandro Tlaie Boria

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Strengthening Cybersecurity of Frontier AI Model Companies and Their Supply Chains via DoD Procurement

If the Department of Defense makes strong cybersecurity a prerequisite for AI-related contracts, it could drive widespread adoption of best practices…

May 6 •

Kathrin Gardhouse

April 2025

Dean Ball Joins the Trump Administration as Senior Policy Advisor for AI & Emerging Tech

From incisive blog posts to the West Wing—Dean Ball brings a steady hand to the White House.

Apr 25 •

Mutual Sabotage of AI Probably Won’t Work

A race for superintelligent AI could spark geopolitical crises, but nuclear deterrence is not a sound analogy.

Apr 22 •

Peter Wildeford

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March 2025

AI Safety Can't Go On Like This

The AI safety movement struggles to maintain its position on 2025’s political map, as the old model isn’t working anymore. On the strategic bind, and a…

Mar 10 •

AI Chip Smuggling Is the Default, Not the Exception

If the US is serious about outcompeting China in AI, it needs to strengthen, not weaken, its AI chip export regime. A crucial first step is eliminating…

Mar 3 •

Erich Grunewald

February 2025

Governments Need to Protect AI Industry Whistleblowers: Here's How

Whistleblowers risk their job, reputation, and even lives to expose misconduct. Michelle Nie argues that ordinary protections won’t be enough in the AI…

Feb 24 •

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