Artificial intelligence (AI) is already transforming migration management, with huge implications for stateless people, migrants, and refugees, yet its use rema

A research and policy lab studying how artificial intelligence, digital minds and blended minds will change citizenship, personhood and identity under the law.

Back in January 2025, I looked at theories of liability for AI harms. Here’s how recent climate litigation might help with forking and swarms.

Meet the two political brawlers unleashing the AI industry’s massive cash on the midterms.

Anthropic, Google and Meta have hired computer scientists, neuroscientists and philosophers to study what some in the industry think may become a moral crisis.

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For decades, one of the most fundamental and vexing questions in neuroscience has been: what is the physical basis of consciousness in the brain? Most…

Generative AI systems often produce false and defamatory statements about real individuals, but traditional defamation law falters when the speaker lacks a mind

Researchers from the AI Policy Lab at Umeå University recommend procedures and disclosures to help IISPAI achieve trust and credibility.

The United Nations has overhauled a decades-old “Kafkaesque financial rule” that requires it to return unspent funds to Member States - even when those funds had never been deposited in the first plac...

The model has been shut down for 2½ weeks due to security concerns, roiling the artificial-intelligence industry.

The Movement to Ban AI Personhood

1/ Can AI be conscious in Ohio? 🤖 New paper with @LuciusCaviola and Heather Alexander (@FutureofCit): the first comprehensive documentation of US state bills denying AI legal personhood and conscious...

The Trump administration weighed export controls on Anthropic weeks before forcing its AI model offline, after a dispute over sharing its technology with a China-linked firm.

AI Comes for the Math World

Qatar’s back-channel effort offers a glimpse into the hidden ways Gulf states have sought to spare themselves damage from the region’s worst war in a generation.

All Fable 5 and Mythos 5 users have lost access after the Trump administration declared the models security risks.

A German regional court has ruled that Google is directly liable for the content of its AI search overviews. According to the court, previous limited liability protections for search engine operators ...

The President of Argentina Disagrees.

Article Summary Illinois House lawmakers passed a bill Wednesday that would regulate how the largest artificial intelligence companies report on

The damage to Emanu-El-Beth-Sholom synagogue is more than material, Rabbi Lisa Grushcow says.

Taken to its logical conclusion, this line of thinking is absurd—and damning.

The draft legislation represents Republicans’ last realistic chance to craft federal rules governing artificial intelligence before the midterm elections.

From the column: "We are all worried about AI safety, but (a constitutional) amendment is the wrong approach."

Our views on the AI competition between the US and China.

Language models recognize dropout and Gaussian noise applied to their activations. We show that LLMs can detect, localize, and distinguish perturbations applied to their own internal representations.

Is it time to consider prosecuting AI models for breaking the law? Some say it's time. Others say that would be an insult to humanity. Some states are considering laws blocking AI personhood.

The future of creative labor will turn on whether AI-generated work can be copyrighted.

Paris prosecutors investigating X are seeking preliminary charges against Musk and ex-CEO Linda Yaccarino even if they don’t appear; company has called probe “abusive.”

Richard Dawkins caught hell on social media for suggesting it does.

View detailed bill information for the Tennessee General Assembly, including sponsors, summaries, amendments, action history, fiscal notes, and voting records.

Artificial neurons could open a pathway toward computing that resembles human brain power.

Expanded collaborations with leading U.S. AI labs provide for pre-deployment evaluations and other research.

His new book, about the mystery of consciousness, strengthens the case that technology will never truly replicate humans.

I review "A World Appears" by Michael Pollan.

AI systems are increasingly designed in ways that lead users to perceive them as conscious. This paper provides a unified framework connecting empirical hallmar

A constitutional battle is brewing in Minnesota after a bipartisan coalition of elected officials have proposed a state constitutional amendment to prohibit free speech rights for artificial intellige...