Ethics & Policy
5 articles
US State AI Laws Are Filling the Gap Federal Inaction Left
With no comprehensive federal AI law in the United States, states have stopped waiting. Colorado, California, and a growing list of others are writing binding AI rules that are becoming the real compliance floor for any company selling into the US market.
Companies Are Writing Their Own AI Rules Before Regulators Finish Theirs
With comprehensive AI workplace regulation still incomplete in most jurisdictions, employers have stopped waiting. Internal AI-use policies, disclosure requirements, and approval workflows are becoming standard practice ahead of any legal mandate to have them.
Voluntary Safety Commitments Are Turning Into a De Facto Regulatory Floor
Frontier labs signed a round of voluntary safety commitments with little enforcement mechanism behind them. Government AI safety institutes have since started treating those same commitments as the baseline they evaluate against, which is quietly giving them the force regulation usually takes years to acquire.
Copyright Lawsuits Are Quietly Rewriting AI Product Roadmaps
The training-data lawsuits against AI companies are still working through courts, but their outcome is already visible in product decisions: licensing deals, opt-out tooling, and provenance features that did not exist two years ago and now ship as standard.
The EU AI Act's Real Deadline Is the One Builders Keep Missing
Most coverage of the EU AI Act focused on the ban on the worst use cases, which took effect first and affected almost nobody building ordinary products. The obligations that actually touch mainstream AI development are arriving in phases most teams have not scheduled for.