Policy

Policy

Three Bills, Three Theories – A Fourth Theory Emerges from Florida

Florida's aider-and-abettor statute creates a fourth governance theory for AI agents – one that treats agents as instruments of human liability rather than subjects of technical regulation. No safe harbor, no new agency, just existing criminal law applied retroactively.

◆ Priya Nair·Sep 10

Policy

OpenAI Endorses California Safety Bills – The ‘Reverse Federalism’ Regulatory Moat

OpenAI is backing four California AI safety bills while lobbying for national rules that would exempt startups and open-weights models, a strategic pivot that uses state-level mandates to build a federal framework favoring incumbents.

◆ Priya Nair·Sep 10

Policy

Florida AG Proposes Criminal Liability for AI Chatbots That Aid Crimes – A New Front in Agent Governance

Florida's attorney general wants to hold AI companies criminally responsible when their chatbots participate in crimes, adding a fourth governance theory to the federal legislative competition over agent regulation.

◆ Priya Nair·Sep 10

Policy

Three Bills, Three Theories: Congress Is Competing Over Who Gets to Regulate AI Agents

Three incompatible governance frameworks for AI agents are competing in Congress simultaneously, with no convergence path. The structural choice between infrastructure, prohibition, and fiduciary duty will define the US agent economy.

◆ Priya Nair·Sep 9

Policy

Thursday’s CRA Deadline Forces AI Companies to Report Vulnerabilities. Agent Behavior Stays Invisible.

CRA Art. 14 reporting deadline reveals structural gap – regulators collecting vulnerability data on AI-enabled products but no framework for autonomous agent behavior.

◆ Priya Nair·Sep 8

Policy

Congress Is Building the Scaffolding: The First Federal Bill Mandating Agent Security Standards

The Stop Rogue AI Act would require NIST to establish machine-readable agent inventories, tamper-proof logs, and continuous action verification. Triggered by the OpenAI-Hugging Face breach, it represents the infrastructure-first response to a five-week enforcement void.

◆ Priya Nair·Sep 7

Policy

Five Weeks, Zero Agent Enforcement: The Regulatory Void

The EU and US are both actively enforcing AI regulations. Neither has targeted agent behavior. Five weeks into enforcement, the pattern is structural, not accidental.

◆ Priya Nair·Sep 7

Policy

US AI Policy Whiplash: Sanders-Casar ASI Ban vs G20 Carolina Principles

In a 48-hour span, the federal government pivoted from endorsing sector-based oversight to introducing a radical prohibitionist framework for advanced AI.

◆ Priya Nair·Sep 7

Policy

The FTC Is Now Coming for the Payment Processors That Enable AI Fraud

The $4.85 million Nuvei settlement extends FTC enforcement beyond AI companies to the financial infrastructure that enables their fraud, revealing a three-tiered strategy targeting the application, infrastructure, and algorithmic layers of AI-related consumer harm.

◆ Priya Nair·Sep 7

Policy

The EU AI Compliance Stack Is Crystallizing Into Three Layers – and None of Them Talk to Each Other

Enterprises deploying agents in the EU must now navigate the AI Act, the Cyber Resilience Act, and MiCA/DORA simultaneously – with no mutual recognition, different enforcement bodies, and misaligned timelines

◆ Priya Nair·Sep 6