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Imagine a near-ish future AI model — Claude Opus 5.2, perhaps, or GPT-6.0. It’s still only deployed internally, and it’s not quite Skynet, but it’s capable of some troubling behavior. Developers recently caught it att...
The best AI bill yet may not get far
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Trump’s AI executive order was inevitable
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On the very first day of his second term, President Donald Trump revoked Joe Biden’s AI executive order, which required AI companies to disclose details of their internal safety testing.
A month later, Vice Presi...
The campaign to stop federal AI laws is backfiring
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The writers behind this newsletter.
Shakeel is the editor of Transformer, a publication about the power and politics of transformative AI. He was previously a news editor at The Economist.
I'm an ex-neuroscientist and current AI reporter at Transformer. When I'm not writing, I play bass, dance, and kiss my cats on the forehead.
Tech, policy, politics. Political editor @ The New World, Fellow @ Demos, newsletter @ techtris, PhD researcher @ UCL Laws. Latest book: The Other Pandemic – How QAnon Contaminated The World.
Senior AI Policy Reporter at Transformer X/Bsky: @vronirwin IG/Threads: @vronwrites LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/veronica-irwin-009266112/ Signal: vronirwin.72 veronica(at)transformernews(dot)ai
Yi-Ling Liu is a writer and journalist-in-residence at the Tarbell Center for AI Journalism. She is the author of The Wall Dancers: Searching for Freedom and Connection on the Chinese Internet.
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