The Hallway Track
12 tracked signals on policy.
1,171 frontier AI employees urge U.S. government to internationally pace automated AI development
“AI could help create a dramatically better future, but that outcome is not guaranteed. The world's leading AI companies believe they could be close to automating AI research. It is hard to predict exactly how much this will accelerate AI progress, but there is a real risk that capability development rapidly accelerates beyond our ability to understand or control the resulting systems.”
OpenAI calls for coordinated global AI standards covering evaluation, reporting, and governance to improve safety.
New laws are targeting journalists exposing fraud, highlighting critical journalism's importance.
“The fact that they're creating laws to try to stop you from doing basic journalism means you're kicking ass, Nick.”
US may ban Chinese open-weight AI models as Hugging Face discloses using open models for cyber defense
Ben Thompson proposes US law legalizing AI training data collection and distillation to compete with China
“The U.S. should pass a law that (1) makes explicit that collecting data for training models is fair use, and (2) bars terms of service that forbid distillation, for U.S. companies at a minimum.”
Regulating or banning open source AI would be a grave mistake for the US.
“Open source – simply a process that allows technology to be shared, built, and distributed publicly and transparently – is safe, secure, and drives economic growth.”
Fable 5 export controls wrongly ban defensive AI security work mislabeled as a jailbreak.
“That is not a guardrail bypass. It is the most valuable thing an AI model can do for defensive security: executing the find, fix, and test loop defenders run every day.”
OpenAI proposes a federal framework for democratic governance of frontier AI in the U.S.
IFP think tank proposes 23 policy recommendations to manage automated AI R&D risks
“Right now, it’s as if the world is driving AI development in a car that only has an accelerator pedal and no brake pedal, let alone any kind of sophisticated telemetry for knowing things ranging from the speed of the car to the properties of the engine to the wear on the tires.”
OpenAI calls for global action and an international institute on youth AI safety.
OpenAI lobbies Texas Governor Abbott to shape state AI infrastructure policy
Over-regulating AI safety risks repeating nuclear energy's costly policy mistakes
“we had a safety lobby in the 70s basically kill abundant clean energy for us”