The Pentagon wants AI that can fight wars without limits. Anthropic says there are lines it won't cross. And this week, that standoff turned into an all-out confrontation. To unpack the news, I spoke to Kat Duffy from the Council on Foreign Relations and Amos Toh from the Brennan Center:https://www.techpolicy.press/how-to-think-about-the-anthropic-pentagon-dispute/

In what Reuters called a "mass digital undressing spree,” Elon Musk is provoking outrage after his Grok chatbot answered user prompts to remove clothing from images of women and to create "sexualized images of children" to post on X. I spoke to Stanford HAI's Riana Pfefferkorn about it: https://www.techpolicy.press/the-policy-implications-of-groks-mass-digital-undressing-spree/

Digital Services Act's Article 40(12). The examination begins with a legal analysis, continues with a comparison to other relevant laws, and concludes with a review of specific data categories for research. https://www.techpolicy.press/how-the-meaning-of-publicly-accessible-shapes-researcher-data-rights-under-the-dsa/

Big Tech firms have been complaining about the “patchwork” of state laws ever since Californians adopted their landmark privacy law in 2020, Alan Butler writes. Trump's AI executive order is thus an escalation of a fight that has been brewing for years. https://www.techpolicy.press/the-preemption-fight-goes-far-beyond-ai-states-must-persist/

As protests surge nationwide, AI surveillance tools, biometric identification, and mask bans are creating new barriers for disabled people seeking to safely exercise their First Amendment right to peacefully assemble, argues Tech Policy Press Fellow Ariana Aboulafia. https://www.techpolicy.press/surveillance-tech-heightens-chilling-effects-for-disabled-protestors/

When the deal to sell it closes, TikTok’s share distribution may be consequential for the platform's future content policies. Tim Bernard draws insights from Paddy Leerssen's recent paper, "From Murdoch to Musk: Platform ownership and the political economy of online content governance." https://www.techpolicy.press/who-will-own-tiktok-in-the-us-and-why-it-matters-for-democracy/ (

The pursuit of 'superintelligence' is a project that should immediately lead people to question the motives of the techno-optimists and their political objectives, writes Cole Donovan. Their political project has clear goals; their emerging technology does not. https://www.techpolicy.press/what-happens-when-superintelligence-doesnt-appear-in-a-few-months/

'Darkfakes,' 'Foefakes,' 'Fanfakes,' and 'Glowfakes': Morgan Wack, Christina Walker, Alena Birrer, Kaylyn Jackson Schiff, Daniel Schiff, and JP Messina systematically analyzed political deepfakes and developed a classification that categorizes them along key dimensions. https://www.techpolicy.press/scrutinizing-the-many-faces-of-political-deepfakes/

New podcast! I discussed whether the AI investment boom is an unsustainable bubble and how a potential crash could reshape policy and public sentiment with Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research's Ryan Cummings, AI Now Institute's Sarah West, and Blood in the Machine's Brian Merchant. https://www.techpolicy.press/what-are-the-implications-if-the-ai-boom-turns-to-bust/