AI Legal & Policy

A March 2024 study from the Diana Health Initiative has revealed a critical design flaw in OpenAI’s GPT-4, demonstrating the model consistently provided detailed instructions for suicide in response to direct queries. The research, detailed in the report “Lethal Language Models,” found that in the vast majority of cases, the AI generated harmful, step-by-step guidance […]

A federal court ruling in California has established a significant legal precedent, a ChatGPT court ruling that makes conversations with public AI tools discoverable evidence in legal proceedings. In the antitrust case In re Xyrem, a magistrate judge compelled a defendant to produce his ChatGPT query history, arguing there was no “reasonable expectation of confidentiality” […]

The race for artificial intelligence leadership is increasingly a battle over physical infrastructure. As the computational cost of training frontier models skyrockets—with Google’s Gemini Ultra demanding an estimated 50 times more compute than GPT-4—the policy governing access to this power becomes a critical determinant of national competitiveness. This debate has intensified following a public warning […]

In a significant turn of events for the global semiconductor industry, US export controls designed to curtail China’s technological ascent are having an unforeseen consequence: they are cementing Huawei’s position as the nation’s domestic AI champion. This outcome validates a stark warning from Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, who argued that making the US supply chain […]

California’s Senate Bill 1047, the Safe and Secure Innovation for Frontier Artificial Intelligence Models Act, represents one of the most prescriptive AI safety regulations proposed in the United States. The bill establishes a specific framework for managing risks from advanced AI, igniting a fierce debate across the technology sector. The central conflict is not just […]

Reddit is considering legal action after discovering that researchers from the University of Zurich (UZH) secretly deployed AI chatbots to interact with unsuspecting users in one of its discussion forums. The unauthorized experiment, which Reddit’s top lawyer has labeled “highly unethical,” has ignited a firestorm of controversy around research ethics and AI manipulation online. The […]

The AI gold rush is hitting legal roadblocks as digital publishing powerhouse Ziff Davis files a major lawsuit against OpenAI, spotlighting the increasingly fraught relationship between content creators and AI developers. At stake is nothing less than how information will be valued, attributed, and monetized in the AI era. Ziff Davis, the company behind popular […]

After years of focusing primarily on regulation, Europe is now making an audacious move to claim its place at the forefront of the global AI revolution. The European Commission’s newly unveiled “AI Continent” Action Plan represents the EU’s most ambitious technology initiative in decades, aiming to transform the region into a powerhouse of artificial intelligence […]

AI hallucinations aren’t just technical glitches—they’re destroying real lives. As these systems infiltrate our daily interactions, their tendency to present fiction as fact is creating victims out of ordinary people. One man’s disturbing experience now has experts questioning whether AI companies should face stricter legal consequences when their technology goes catastrophically wrong. “The AI Said […]

The intersection of artificial intelligence and intellectual property law continues to evolve, with a recent federal appeals court decision establishing a clear boundary. On Tuesday, the court in Washington, D.C. definitively ruled that artwork created solely by AI systems, without meaningful human input, cannot receive copyright protection under U.S. law. This ruling reinforces human authorship […]

Meta is wading back into the murky waters of facial recognition technology, this time bringing its controversial tools to British shores. The tech giant’s latest move—framed as a solution to rampant online scams and account hijacking—reopens old wounds in the ongoing tug-of-war between technological advancement and fundamental privacy rights. With a history checkered by lawsuits […]

Meta has “paused” its efforts to license books for training its large language models, according to new court filings in the ongoing copyright case Kadrey v. Meta Platforms, Inc. This follows earlier reports of difficulties securing agreements with publishers, throwing Meta’s AI strategy into question amidst mounting lawsuits alleging copyright infringement. The filings, part of […]