AI Policy Bulletin Newsletter

Leveraging Gulf AI Ambitions for US Strategic Objectives

If the US doesn't engage strategically with the UAE and Saudi Arabia, China will fill the gap.

Feb 9 • Nikhil Mulani and Kristina Fort

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Racing, regulating, and reckoning with transformative AI

10 articles that set the tone for AI policy in 2025

Feb 6 • Nicky Lovegrove

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January 2026

AI Policy Bulletin is scaling up

And we want to hear from you

Jan 27 • Nicky Lovegrove

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Building Self-Aware AI Would Be a Bad Idea

AI models already show early signs of self-awareness. Allowing such capabilities to develop further poses risks we're not ready for.

Jan 21 • Christopher Ackerman

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November 2025

Bargaining Chips: Could the EU Leverage ASML to Influence U.S. AI Policy?

ASML's monopoly on advanced chip-making machines gives the EU rare leverage over global AI development. Using it would mean accepting major costs.

Nov 10, 2025 • Alina Hueber and Antoine Levie

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October 2025

Legal Zero-Days: A Blind Spot in AI Risk Assessment

AI models are developing the ability to discover unforeseen gaps in legal frameworks, with the potential to paralyze government operations. We need to…

Oct 27, 2025 • Nathan Sherburn and Greg Sadler

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Middle Powers Can Gain AI Influence Without Building the Next ChatGPT

Countries like Saudi Arabia, Singapore, and Germany are shaping AI governance through infrastructure investment, standard-setting, and partnerships with…

Oct 9, 2025 • Merve Ayyuce KIZRAK

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September 2025

U.S. States and Cities Are Shaping the Future of AI Infrastructure

The U.S. AI data center boom is increasingly colliding with local opposition.

Sep 17, 2025 • Mac Milin Kiran and Cherry Wu

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August 2025

Making the Case: How Can We Know When AI is Safe?

Safety cases have protected aviation and nuclear industries for decades. Here's how we can apply them to frontier AI systems.

Aug 17, 2025 • Philip Fox, Ben R Smith, Alejandro Tlaie Boria, Tuneer Mondal, and Ketana Krishna

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June 2025

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

How AI's "bigger is better" dogma became trillion-dollar orthodoxy in an era of rapid capability growth.

Jun 5, 2025 • Elana Banin

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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, 2025

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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, 2025 • Sarah Hastings-Woodhouse and Daniel Kokotajlo

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