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Open Protocols Can Prevent AI Monopolies | AI Frontiers Isobel Moure, Jul 30, 2025 — With model performance converging, user data is the new advantage — and Big Tech is sealing it off.

“The choice is ours: design competitive AI markets around open principles, or accept a new generation of platform monopolies,” write Tim O'Reilly, Isobel Moure, and Ilan Strauss

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In the Race for AI Supremacy, Can Countries Stay Neutral? | AI Frontiers Anton Leicht, Jul 23, 2025 — The global AI order is still in flux. But when the US and China figure out their path, they may leave little room for others to define their own.

The US-China race for AI dominance is rewiring geopolitics—but what happens to nations caught in the middle?

@antonleicht.bsky.social lays out three playbooks available to the world's middle powers.

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How AI Can Degrade Human Performance in High-Stakes Settings | AI Frontiers Dane A. Morey, Jul 15, 2025 — Across disciplines, bad AI predictions have a surprising tendency to make human experts perform worse.

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How the EU's Code of Practice Advances AI Safety | AI Frontiers Henry Papadatos, Jul 12, 2025 — The EU’s Code of Practice provides concrete rules poised to push frontier developers toward measurably safer practices.

The EU just finalized its Code of Practice for general-purpose AI models—turning the AI Act’s high-level principles into concrete requirements.

Henry Papadatos argues these new requirements represents a meaningful improvement in safety practices.

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How the EU's Code of Practice Advances AI Safety | AI Frontiers Henry Papadatos, Jul 12, 2025 — The EU’s Code of Practice provides concrete rules poised to push frontier developers toward measurably safer practices.

The EU just finalized its Code of Practice for general-purpose AI models—turning the AI Act’s high-level principles into concrete requirements.

Henry Papadatos argues these new requirements represents a meaningful improvement in safety practices.

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How US Export Controls Have (and Haven't) Curbed Chinese AI | AI Frontiers Chris Miller, Jul 08, 2025 — Six years of export restrictions have given the U.S. a commanding lead in key dimensions of the AI competition — but it’s uncertain if the impact of these controls will pe...

Have U.S. chip export controls curbed Chinese AI?

Chris Miller (“Chip War”) assesses the impact across three dimensions:

▪️China’s domestic chipmaking capability
▪️The competitiveness of Chinese AI models
▪️China’s ability to provide AI infrastructure abroad

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Eager to read and digest. I have been asked dozens of times how to make the NP system adapt to AI, and I am skeptical it works beyond export controls. Thanks @mchorowitz.bsky.social and @laurenakahn.bsky.social

Nuclear Non-Proliferation Is the Wrong Framework for AI Governance | AI Frontiers Michael C. Horowitz, Jun 27, 2025 — Placing AI in a nuclear framework inflates expectations and distracts from practical, sector-specific governance.

In their latest piece for @aifrontiers.bsky.social, PWH's @mchorowitz.bsky.social and @laurenakahn.bsky.social argue that nuclear non-proliferation should not be the model for AI governance. Read more:
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Can Copyright Survive AI? | AI Frontiers Laura González Salmerón, Jun 19, 2025 — Designed to protect human creativity, copyright law is under pressure from generative AI. Some experts question whether it has a future.

How should copyright law treat AI? Should training on protected data be allowed—and who owns what AI creates? We break down the key issues and cases:
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#ai #copyright #intellectualproperty

Avoiding an AI Arms Race with Assurance Technologies | AI Frontiers Nora Ammann, Jun 16, 2025 — A global race to build powerful AI is not inevitable. Here’s how technical solutions can help foster cooperation.

How hardware-enabled mechanisms (HEMs) can make global cooperation on powerful #AI possible — even amid geopolitical tensions.

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We'll Be Arguing for Years Whether Large Language Models Can Make New Scientific Discoveries | AI Frontiers Edward Parker, Jun 13, 2025 —

“AI models will continue to produce increasingly impressive discussions of scientific and mathematical concepts, along with some mistakes. Some experts will say that these discussions are groundbreaking, and others will dismiss them as obvious or unimportant.”

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The Case for AI Liability | AI Frontiers Gabriel Weil, Jun 12, 2025 — Abandoning liability mechanisms risks creating a dangerous regulatory vacuum.

“Liability represents the most suitable policy tool for addressing many of the most pressing risks posed by AI systems,” writes Gabriel Weil in response to last week's article by Kevin Frazier.

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What if Organizations Ran Themselves? | AI Frontiers Gayan Benedict, Jun 11, 2025 — Autonomous AI-enabled organizations are increasingly plausible. They would fundamentally break the way we regulate the economy.

Autonomous AI-enabled organizations (AAOs) are increasingly plausible.

They would fundamentally break how we regulate the economy and hold corporations accountable.
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We're Not Ready for AI Liability | AI Frontiers Kevin Frazier, Jun 04, 2025 — In the absence of federal legislation, the burden of managing AI risks has fallen to judges and state legislators — actors lacking the tools needed to ensure consistency,...

@kevintfrazier.bsky.social argues that judges and state governments lack the tools needed to properly enforce AI liability.
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How AI Can Prevent Blackouts | AI Frontiers David “davidad” Dalrymple, Jun 05, 2025 — For safety-critical domains like energy grids,

Mass power outages in Spain, Portugal, and England over the past few months have caused billions in economic damage.

AI could help prevent the next blackout — but deploying AI effectively in critical systems will require stronger safety guarantees.

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A Glimpse into the Future of AI Companions | AI Frontiers Vanessa Bates Ramirez, May 29, 2025 — AI is increasingly being used for emotional support — but research from OpenAI and MIT raises concerns that it may leave some users feeling even worse.

Enjoyed speaking with @aifrontiers.bsky.social about one of my favorite topics: what #AI companions could mean for the human social world. 🤖

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#AIethics

Avoiding reactionary and, ultimately, detrimental AI regulations requires addressing head on the public’s AI fears.

Job loss is near the top of that list.

My latest @aifrontiers.bsky.social piece explores a way forward.

Criticizing the AI safety community as anti-tech or anti-risktaking has always seemed off to me. But there *is* plenty to critique. My latest on Rising Tide (xposted with @aifrontiers.bsky.social!) is on the 1998 book that helped me put it into words.

In short: it's about dynamism vs stasis.

How AI Is Eroding the Norms of War | AI Frontiers David Kirichenko, May 27, 2025 — An unchecked autonomous arms race is eroding rules that distinguish civilians from combatants.

‘The evolution of automated drone combat in Ukraine should be a cautionary tale for the rest of the world about the future of warfare'.

@kirichenko.bsky.social writes for @aifrontiers.bsky.social.

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