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Exclusive: Here's the draft Trump executive order on AI preemption

The EO would establish an “AI Litigation Task Force" to challenge state AI laws

Nov 19 •

How profits can drive AI safety

Opinion: Geoff Ralston argues that the safety and security of AI doesn’t need to be at odds with profit and progress

Nov 19

Event: Kanishka Narayan and Henry de Zoete on scaling AI state capacity

Join Transformer and TxP at our very special event next month.

Nov 19 •

Why pressure on AI child safety could also address frontier risks

Keeping kids safe is a priority for legislators globally — and might increase attention on other risks, too

Nov 18 •

Chris Stokel-Walker

Silicon Valley should put the mask back on

Transformer Weekly: Semi-autonomous cyberattacks, Amazon backs GAIN AI Act, and a new super PAC-linked advocacy group

Nov 14 •

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The power and politics of transformative AI.

Policy

Exclusive: Here's the draft Trump executive order on AI preemption

The EO would establish an “AI Litigation Task Force" to challenge state AI laws

Nov 19 •

Why pressure on AI child safety could also address frontier risks

Keeping kids safe is a priority for legislators globally — and might increase attention on other risks, too

Nov 18 •

Chris Stokel-Walker

Doing AI safety policy when governments aren’t interested

Opinion: Jess Whittlestone argues that there are still ways to keep AI safety policy on the table even when governments don’t prioritize it

Nov 12 •

Jess Whittlestone

A federal AI backstop is not as insane as it sounds

Transformer Weekly: No B30A chips for China, Altman’s ‘pattern of lying’ and a watered down EU AI Act

Nov 7 •

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Industry

The markets aren’t bracing for an AI crash — yet

Transformer Weekly: Blackwell chips and China, White House warning to pro-AI super pac, and OpenAI’s restructure

Oct 31 •

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What you need to know about the OpenAI restructure

Negotiations have seen safeguards and concessions built in, but questions remain about how effective they’ll be, and how fair the deal is

Oct 29 •

Where have the really big AI models gone?

Why the race to scale up pretraining isn’t over

Oct 28 •

OpenAI's descent into slop

Transformer Weekly: Newsom signs SB 53, Claude Sonnet 4.5, and a Hawley/Blumenthal evals bill

Oct 3

Capabilities + Risks

Claude can identify its ‘intrusive thoughts’

“I’m experiencing something that feels like an intrusive thought,” Claude said in a recent experiment

Nov 13 •

AI doesn’t need to be general to be dangerous

There’s more to AI safety than the AGI debate

Nov 11 •

AI cyberrisk might be a bit overhyped — for now at least

Experts say key factors currently limit the risk of catastrophic harm from AI-enabled cyberattacks — as far as we know

Oct 20 •

Chris Stokel-Walker

AI is advancing far faster than our annual report can track

Opinion: Yoshua Bengio, Stephen Clare and Carina Prunkl run through the rapid developments that necessitated an early update to their International AI…

Oct 15

Society

Why we need to think about taxing AI

Large-scale AI-driven unemployment could hit government spending without innovative changes to the tax system

Nov 4 •

What happens when the AI bubble bursts?

The world is prepping for an AI crash. History points to what that might look like

Oct 16 •

AI is persuasive, but that’s not the real problem for democracy

Opinion: Felix M Simon argues that AI is unlikely to significantly shape election results in the near future, but warns that it could damage democracy…

Oct 1

No, ChatGPT isn’t ‘making us stupid’

— but there’s still reason to worry

Sep 24 •

Opinion

How profits can drive AI safety

Opinion: Geoff Ralston argues that the safety and security of AI doesn’t need to be at odds with profit and progress

Nov 19

Doing AI safety policy when governments aren’t interested

Opinion: Jess Whittlestone argues that there are still ways to keep AI safety policy on the table even when governments don’t prioritize it

Nov 12 •

Jess Whittlestone

Sora is here. The window to save visual truth is closing

Opinion: Sam Gregory argues that generative video is undermining the notion of a shared reality, and that we need to act before it’s lost forever

Nov 5

Audits, not essays: How to win trust for enterprise AI

Opinion: Alexandru Voica argues that application-layer AI companies are best off opening themselves up to rigorous testing rather than opining on AI…

Oct 29 •

Alexandru Voica

Weekly Briefing

Silicon Valley should put the mask back on

Transformer Weekly: Semi-autonomous cyberattacks, Amazon backs GAIN AI Act, and a new super PAC-linked advocacy group

Nov 14 •

and

A federal AI backstop is not as insane as it sounds

Transformer Weekly: No B30A chips for China, Altman’s ‘pattern of lying’ and a watered down EU AI Act

Nov 7 •

and

The markets aren’t bracing for an AI crash — yet

Transformer Weekly: Blackwell chips and China, White House warning to pro-AI super pac, and OpenAI’s restructure

Oct 31 •

and

The AI midterms have already begun

Transformer Weekly: Wiener and Bores announce, a new AISI chief, and a new NIST director

Oct 24 •

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