"Perhaps in response to the growing unease, A.I. companies have lately been undertaking various other efforts to appear more high-minded. Following the lead of Anthropic, Google DeepMind recently hired an in-house philosopher, and Anthropic convened a meeting of Christian leaders to discuss its chatbot’s moral orientation. A more effective strategy might be for A.I. executives to stop appointing themselves as the only arbiters of safety, to stop asking for blind faith, and to start fostering a system of external accountability, with input and involvement from the public. Tech companies proposing ways to reshape the government is a soft form of techno-fascism that alienates citizens; if A.I. requires a new social contract or a new political hierarchy, then its shape should not be up to the corporations to determine. There is another troubling paradox behind A.I. founders’ messaging: If the technology is as formidable as they claim, then they could be leading us toward existential disaster; if the technology proves less transformative, and thus less valuable than the hype suggests, then they are merely setting us up for global economic disaster. For those of us who aren’t self-appointed heroes of the artificial-intelligence movement, neither scenario is particularly appealing."

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/infinite-scroll/ai-has-a-message-problem-of-its-own-making

#AI #GenerativeAI #OpenAI #Technofascism #Anthropic #AIRegulation

https://winbuzzer.com/2026/04/14/stalking-victim-sues-openai-says-chatgpt-fueled-abusers-delu-xcxwbn/

Stalking Victim Sues OpenAI, Says ChatGPT Fueled Abuser's Delusions

#AI #OpenAI #ChatGPT #AISafety #AIEthics #AIRegulation #AIAssistants #Cyberstalking

"The previously undisclosed board of an ascendant DC think tank pushing Democrats to the center includes a Democratic Party megadonor with a stake in artificial intelligence chip designer Nvidia, which could benefit from the organization’s efforts to defend data center build-outs and limit AI regulation.

The Lever exclusively reports that philanthropist Simone Coxe — whose multibillion-dollar fortune largely comes from her venture capitalist husband’s investments in Nvidia — sits on the board of the Searchlight Institute, a new center-left DC think tank. Nvidia is heavily invested in data center expansion.

Coxe, also the cofounder of and director at California news organization CalMatters and a prolific Democratic donor, is listed as a director of the Searchlight Institute in the organization’s DC incorporation documents. The think tank has not disclosed its association with Coxe or her husband, Tench Coxe.

Searchlight’s board of directors has not been previously reported. It includes other rich and powerful investors with a stake in the AI build-out, such as billionaire hedge fund manager Stephen Mandel. Mandel’s investment firm Lone Pine Capital is heavily invested in the Taiwanese Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, the largest manufacturer of chips designed by Nvidia."

https://jacobin.com/2026/04/democrats-coxe-ai-searchlight-nvidia

#USA #AI #AIRegulation #ThinkTanks #SearchLightInstitute #Nvidia

"OpenAI is throwing its support behind an Illinois state bill that would shield AI labs from liability in cases where AI models are used to cause serious societal harms, such as death or serious injury of 100 or more people or at least $1 billion in property damage.

The effort seems to mark a shift in OpenAI’s legislative strategy. Until now, OpenAI has largely played defense, opposing bills that could have made AI labs liable for their technology’s harms. Several AI policy experts tell WIRED that SB 3444—which could set a new standard for the industry—is a more extreme measure than bills OpenAI has supported in the past.

The bill, SB 3444, would shield frontier AI developers from liability for “critical harms” caused by their frontier models as long as they did not intentionally or recklessly cause such an incident, and have published safety, security, and transparency reports on their website. It defines frontier model as any AI model trained using more than $100 million in computational costs, which likely could apply to America’s largest AI labs like OpenAI, Google, xAI, Anthropic, and Meta."

https://www.wired.com/story/openai-backs-bill-exempt-ai-firms-model-harm-lawsuits/

#USA #Illinois #AI #GenerativeAI #OpenAI #AIRegulation #AISafety

AI regulation is becoming a major US midterm battleground. Anti-regulation groups plan to spend $225m and pro-regulation groups are raising $75m. The fight over AI guardrails is escalating fast👇

#AIRegulation #USMidterms #TechPolicy

https://www.blueprintforfreespeech.net/en/news/ai-regulation-becomes-key-battleground-for-us-midterms

Florida's AG launched an investigation into OpenAI for safety failures the same week a federal court upheld Anthropic's Pentagon blacklisting for having safety guardrails. Meanwhile, OpenAI's own Pentagon contract includes similar restrictions but with different framing. With 250 state AI bills across 40+ states and zero federal laws, companies face contradictory signals where safety appears both mandatory and prohibited. #AIPolicy #AIRegulation #TechPolicy

https://www.implicator.ai/the-pentagon-punished-ai-safety-a-republican-state-just-demanded-it/