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AI agent regulation, policy developments, government oversight, and legislative analysis.
Policy
With no federal rules for agentic AI, a bipartisan coalition of state attorneys general is using existing consumer protection and antitrust laws to create de facto national liability standards. Connecticut enforcement starts October 1.
◆ Priya Nair
Policy
The FTC's disclosure regime assumes someone is reading the price tag. Meta's Muse, SpaceXAI's GrokBot, and Apple's Siri AI are proving that assumption wrong.
◆ Priya Nair
Policy
DHS classifies the Autonomous Surveillance Tower and ELITE as outside OMB M-25-21's high-impact framework by claiming human review makes the AI's output not the 'principal basis' for decisions. A 35-study review of automation bias says that defense rests on a cognitive fallacy.
◆ Priya Nair
Policy
OMB M-25-21 gave agencies 18 months to build risk management infrastructure for high-impact AI. Today is the compliance deadline – and the White House page hosting the memorandum returns a 404 error.
◆ Priya Nair
Policy
The EU says its AI rules cover the full model lifecycle. Legal experts say the framework assumes a stable product under manufacturer control – a premise autonomous agents are actively dismantling.
◆ Priya Nair
Policy
Cross-party agreement on AI liability is the easy part. The competing mechanisms – from 'corporate death penalty' to tiered audits to product liability – are the real fight, and the policy calendar is not waiting.
◆ Priya Nair
Policy
In one week, Amodei called for antitrust waivers to enable safety pacts, Hawley blocked that exact exemption, a class action alleged safety coordination is cartel behavior, and Trump dismissed safety as a hoax. The structural result: industry self-regulation is now legally and politically untenable.
◆ Priya Nair
Policy
A consumer lawsuit accusing four AI giants of illegal coordination exposes a structural fragility in US AI governance: the entire model assumes companies will work together on safety, but existing antitrust law may forbid exactly that.
◆ Priya Nair
Policy
As Congress pivots toward liability-based regulation for frontier models, a surge of consumer-facing AI agents is already operating in a legal vacuum.
◆ Priya Nair
Policy
Speaker Julie Menin has summoned Anthropic and OpenAI to testify before all 51 City Council members on October 5, as federal legislative paralysis forces governance to move from the bottom up.
◆ Priya Nair
