Illinois Just Made Model Weights a Security Asset. Encryption at Rest Will Not Cover It.
Illinois did not regulate a chatbot. It regulated the file that is the model. In early July 2026, Governor JB Pritzker signed Senate Bill 315, the Artificial Intelligence Safety Measures Act. It takes effect January 1, 2027. The heavier duties, including a published frontier AI framework and an annual independent audit, phase in January 1, […]
AI Audits Are the New Guardrail. The White House Accord Does Not Make Them Real.
September made AI auditing the default answer to a month of incidents. Frontier labs, their CEOs, and the White House all landed on the same substitute for a binding rule: someone independent should look at the model. That instinct is right. The paperwork so far is not an audit. On September 29, 2026, President Trump […]
Is Your Customer Service Call a Biometric Event? Lowe’s Voiceprint Lawsuit Signals a New BIPA Risk for AI
A routine call to customer service may be becoming something very different under Illinois privacy law. A proposed class action filed against Lowe’s accuses the home improvement retailer of using its customer-service telephone systems to collect biometric “voiceprints” from Illinois callers without providing the written disclosures or obtaining the consent required by the Illinois Biometric […]
Governors Call for Federal AI Guardrails as States Build Their Own Rules
The United States is rapidly developing a state-by-state system for regulating artificial intelligence, and some of the governors creating those rules now say the country cannot continue that way indefinitely. Maryland Gov. Wes Moore and Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker called on Congress and the federal government to establish national AI safeguards, arguing that a technology […]
Inside METR: The Nonprofit Quietly Stress-Testing the World’s Most Powerful AI Models
If you follow AI safety or AI governance even casually, you have probably seen the acronym METR attached to a footnote in a system card, a chart showing task lengths doubling every few months, or a headline about a security incident at a major lab. Model Evaluation & Threat Research, known as METR and pronounced […]
Dario Just Proposed Slowing AI Development on Purpose
Just now Dario released a blog post titled: “We Must Pace the Frontier,” Anthropic co-founder and CEO Dario Amodei made a case that runs against the industry’s default instinct: frontier AI companies should deliberately slow the rate at which model capabilities advance, so that safety and alignment work has time to keep pace. This is […]
What Anthropic’s Latest Threat Intelligence Report Actually Reveals About AI Misuse, and What It Means for Enterprise AI Governance
Dario just released a We Must Pace the Frontier piece today: https://darioamodei.com/post/we-must-pace-the-frontier and this is on the tail of the intelligence layer not for AI bots but for warfare by governments. Anthropic published a threat intelligence report this week detailing dozens of cases in which state-linked and criminal actors attempted to use its Claude models […]
Healthcare AI Does Not Have a Governance Gap. It Has a Jurisdiction Problem.
Pharma can find a biological target in a week that used to take a quarter. The law still treats that model as a chatbot in California, a high-risk system in Brussels, and a HIPAA side project in the United States. That is not a paperwork inconvenience. It is how uneven care gets built. Healthcare did […]
When AI Gives Medical Advice: Where GDPR Patient Rights Meet the EU AI Act
Artificial intelligence is moving quickly into one of the most sensitive places it can operate: the conversation between a person and a healthcare service. AI medical chatbots can collect symptoms, medication histories, diagnoses, age, lifestyle information and other highly personal details before producing health-related recommendations in seconds. Some tools simply provide general information. Others help […]
Privacy Law Already Covers AI. The Work Is Putting Purpose Limits in the System, Not the Policy PDF.
Isabel Hahn and Aaron Alva wrote in Tech Policy Press on August 31 that treating AI as outside ordinary privacy law is a mistake. Hahn is a Berkman Klein Center fellow. Alva is a fellow there too and a former FTC technologist. Their line is blunt: regulators are not inventing an exotic category. They are […]