Experts urge stronger AI oversight
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Lawmakers and experts in the United States and Europe questioned whether voluntary AI safeguards could contain security and safety risks, renewing calls for stronger oversight.
OpenEvidence Confirms It Has Raised An Additional $250 Million At A $15 Billion Valuation www.forbes.com/sites/saibal...
OpenEvidence Confirms It Has Raised An Additional $250 Million At A $15 Billion Valuation
OpenEvidence is a leading AI driven clinical decision support tool.
www.forbes.com
October 2, 2026 at 11:19 AM
OpenEvidence Confirms It Has Raised An Additional $250 Million At A $15 Billion Valuation www.forbes.com/sites/saibal...
12 Sep: an essay asks the AI industry to slow down together.
Same day: three rival CEOs agree.
18 Sep: paying users sue.
21 Sep: 22 gov leaders call for common standards.
The timeline, and what EU competition law would make of it: thecompetitionsystem.substack.com/p/the-ai-slo...
Same day: three rival CEOs agree.
18 Sep: paying users sue.
21 Sep: 22 gov leaders call for common standards.
The timeline, and what EU competition law would make of it: thecompetitionsystem.substack.com/p/the-ai-slo...
The AI slowdown pact under EU law (Buist v. Anthropic)
Four paying users of ChatGPT, Claude, Grok and Gemini say the frontier labs illegally fixed the pace of AI in public. Under Article 101 TFEU most of the answer is already written. It runs against the labs on three steps out of four.
thecompetitionsystem.substack.com
October 2, 2026 at 11:03 AM
12 Sep: an essay asks the AI industry to slow down together.
Same day: three rival CEOs agree.
18 Sep: paying users sue.
21 Sep: 22 gov leaders call for common standards.
The timeline, and what EU competition law would make of it: thecompetitionsystem.substack.com/p/the-ai-slo...
Same day: three rival CEOs agree.
18 Sep: paying users sue.
21 Sep: 22 gov leaders call for common standards.
The timeline, and what EU competition law would make of it: thecompetitionsystem.substack.com/p/the-ai-slo...
Reposted by Michael A. Clemens
How is AI changing the nature of economic research? And how should we think about the stuff being put out by the AI labs?
New episode of The Economics Show with Soumaya Keynes, feat. @AraKharazian.bsky.social (Ramp), @Peter-McCrory.bsky.social (Anthropic) and @JBurnMurdoch.ft.com
pod.fo/e/67c394
New episode of The Economics Show with Soumaya Keynes, feat. @AraKharazian.bsky.social (Ramp), @Peter-McCrory.bsky.social (Anthropic) and @JBurnMurdoch.ft.com
pod.fo/e/67c394
October 2, 2026 at 10:28 AM
How is AI changing the nature of economic research? And how should we think about the stuff being put out by the AI labs?
New episode of The Economics Show with Soumaya Keynes, feat. @AraKharazian.bsky.social (Ramp), @Peter-McCrory.bsky.social (Anthropic) and @JBurnMurdoch.ft.com
pod.fo/e/67c394
New episode of The Economics Show with Soumaya Keynes, feat. @AraKharazian.bsky.social (Ramp), @Peter-McCrory.bsky.social (Anthropic) and @JBurnMurdoch.ft.com
pod.fo/e/67c394
Reposted by Kris Inwood
I think for anyone jaded by all the extremely stupid uses of AI in the context of history (chat with Abraham Lincoln! make people in prison mugshots smile! draw spurious links and conclusions!), this might be interesting.
How professionals, volunteers and an LLM can make real progress.
How professionals, volunteers and an LLM can make real progress.
Untangling The Victoria Police Charge Books With Fable 5 AI
How Anthropic's Fable 5 AI helped a stalled indexing project came back to life by consolidating 18,000 records from Victoria's 1870s.
makingfamilyhistory.com
October 2, 2026 at 8:51 AM
I think for anyone jaded by all the extremely stupid uses of AI in the context of history (chat with Abraham Lincoln! make people in prison mugshots smile! draw spurious links and conclusions!), this might be interesting.
How professionals, volunteers and an LLM can make real progress.
How professionals, volunteers and an LLM can make real progress.
by David Wood
Another example of unintended consequences of putting too much trust in AI - "AI models keep posting screenshots showing sensitive data from inside tech companies" www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/20...
AI models keep posting screenshots showing sensitive data from inside tech companies
Glow Security finds more than 13,000 publicly accessible images that expose corporate development work
www.theregister.com
October 2, 2026 at 6:03 AM
Another example of unintended consequences of putting too much trust in AI - "AI models keep posting screenshots showing sensitive data from inside tech companies" www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/20...
by Philipp Heimberger Reposted by Roman Senninger
Very interesting project: Living Science uses an AI agent to reproduce key findings from seminal papers in economics, document what holds up and extend the analysis with newer data. It's like a follow-up paper with robustness checks and extensions. New paper every week.
October 2, 2026 at 4:45 AM
Very interesting project: Living Science uses an AI agent to reproduce key findings from seminal papers in economics, document what holds up and extend the analysis with newer data. It's like a follow-up paper with robustness checks and extensions. New paper every week.
Imagine four of the most frighteningly irresponsible people in America deciding how AI will be put to use in the most frighteningly irresponsible way.
Well, no need to imagine it — because it's happening now. Some thoughts...
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/autowar
Well, no need to imagine it — because it's happening now. Some thoughts...
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/autowar
October 1, 2026 at 11:20 PM
Imagine four of the most frighteningly irresponsible people in America deciding how AI will be put to use in the most frighteningly irresponsible way.
Well, no need to imagine it — because it's happening now. Some thoughts...
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/autowar
Well, no need to imagine it — because it's happening now. Some thoughts...
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/autowar
by Brian Keegan
Good thing our university is renewing its contract and encouraging faculty, staff, and students to build courses and infrastructure around a company that may not exist in 2028.
Solid chance Openai goes belly up and takes softbank and oracle with it. Couldn't happen to more deserving companies.
October 1, 2026 at 10:26 PM
Good thing our university is renewing its contract and encouraging faculty, staff, and students to build courses and infrastructure around a company that may not exist in 2028.
Reposted by Woodrow Hartzog, Rebecca Sear
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Reposted by David Murakami Wood
Some good news for a change: Overcoming a massive and aggressive tech lobby and a squeamish, Silicon Valley-friendly governor, the labor movement has managed to pass a raft of first-of-their-kind AI laws aimed at protecting workers in California.
California just passed the strongest AI labor laws in the US
Finally, some good news
www.bloodinthemachine.com
October 1, 2026 at 9:43 PM
Some good news for a change: Overcoming a massive and aggressive tech lobby and a squeamish, Silicon Valley-friendly governor, the labor movement has managed to pass a raft of first-of-their-kind AI laws aimed at protecting workers in California.
The labor movement has long fought for state legislatures to rein in unregulated AI.
There is still a long way to go to ensure that workers have a say in how AI is developed and used at work, but these bills in California are a critical step forward.
There is still a long way to go to ensure that workers have a say in how AI is developed and used at work, but these bills in California are a critical step forward.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom signs laws to protect workers from AI risks
California Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed laws aimed at protecting workers from the risks of artificial intelligence.
apnews.com
October 1, 2026 at 8:59 PM
The labor movement has long fought for state legislatures to rein in unregulated AI.
There is still a long way to go to ensure that workers have a say in how AI is developed and used at work, but these bills in California are a critical step forward.
There is still a long way to go to ensure that workers have a say in how AI is developed and used at work, but these bills in California are a critical step forward.
Quote: "As machine intelligence becomes part of science’s epistemic infrastructure, steps must be taken to ensure that researchers who did not build, own, or operate the system can still contest how ideas and evidence became a claim."
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Keep AI-augmented science contestable
Artificial intelligence (AI) is moving upstream in science. Systems such as AlphaFold have already transformed protein-structure prediction, while newer agentic systems can search literatures, generat...
www.science.org
October 1, 2026 at 8:55 PM
Quote: "As machine intelligence becomes part of science’s epistemic infrastructure, steps must be taken to ensure that researchers who did not build, own, or operate the system can still contest how ideas and evidence became a claim."
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...