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A recent AI security incident during a frontier model internal evaluation demonstrates the need for better information sharing requirements.

On July 13, FPF submitted comments in response to the Colorado Department of Justice’s (the Department’s) pre-rulemaking process for the Colorado Automated Decision-making Act (SB 189) and the Chatbot Safety Act (HB 1263). As lawmakers continue to calibrate a proportionate approach to consumer protection from risks of AI-related harms, Colorado’s two new laws each take […]

<img class="webfeedsFeaturedVisual" src="https://lawfare-assets-new.azureedge.net/assets/images/default-source/article-images/scaling-laws-logo.jpg?sfvrsn=7a7b38eb_3" /><p>Assemblymember Alex Bores ran for Congress on a platform that in many ways centered on AI policy. He therefore drew considerable support as well as substantial opposition from interest groups across the country. Though Bores lost in the Democratic primary, his experience is worth exploring in detail.</p><div data-sf-ec-immutab

The latest edition of the Seriously Risky Business cybersecurity newsletter, now on <em>Lawfare</em>.

Future AI risks will be harder to address ad hoc.

<div><p dir="ltr">The Lawfare Institute—publisher of information and insight at the intersection of national security, law and policy—seeks a motivated full-time associate editor focused on artificial intelligence. </p><div><br /></div></div>

Live from the Institute of Law & AI's Workshop on Law-Following AI

AI's costs are landing in real places, and the people absorbing them are writing the rules after the fact, in council chambers and courtrooms. Source

Rapidly growing agetech industry has a significant opportunity to close trust gap, increase product adoption with increased transparency WASHINGTON, D.C. — (July 20, 2026) — The Future of Privacy Forum (FPF) — a global non-profit focused on data protection, AI, and emerging technologies — today released findings from a comprehensive March 2026 survey about how […]

A review of Katrina Manson, “Project Maven: A Marine Colonel, His Team, and the Dawn of AI Warfare” (Norton, 2026).

<img class="webfeedsFeaturedVisual" src="https://lawfare-assets-new.azureedge.net/assets/images/default-source/article-images/scaling-laws-logo.jpg?sfvrsn=7a7b38eb_3" /><p>Nils Tracy, founder of Authorship, joins Kevin Frazier, the AI Innovation and Law Fellow at the University of Texas School of Law and a Senior Editor at Lawfare, to detail the challenges and solutions to deploying AI in highly sensitive contexts.<br /></p><p>Authorship enables users to map their AI policies to myriad use cases

The latest edition of the Seriously Risky Business cybersecurity newsletter, now on <em>Lawfare</em>.

<p>Discussing technical proposals aimed at preventing AI systems from generating exploitative content.</p>

Before locking in new restrictions on AI models, policymakers should ask how much distillation actually contributes to the threat.

Co-authored by Sarah Hanson, FPF Health & Wellness Intern This article discusses suicidal ideation, which may be distressing for some readers. (If you or someone you know is struggling, help is available. You can call or text the Suicide & Crisis Lifeline at 988 or visit 988 Lifeline for free, confidential, 24/7 support.) As many […]

<p>AI in the near term may drive cybersecurity back to its roots, when widespread vulnerabilities, not deceptive intrusions, drove incidents.</p>

<p>Steve Feldstein argues that the conventional wisdom about AI warfare has it backwards.</p>

<img class="webfeedsFeaturedVisual" src="https://lawfare-assets-new.azureedge.net/assets/images/default-source/article-images/scaling-laws-logo.jpg?sfvrsn=7a7b38eb_3" /><p>Joe Seddon, Founder and CEO of Zero Gravity, joins Kevin Frazier, director of the AI Innovation and Law Program at the University of Texas School of Law and a senior fellow at the Abundance Institute, to discuss AI, social mobility, higher education, and the future of opportunity. Zero Gravity is a UK-based platform that helps

<img class="webfeedsFeaturedVisual" src="https://lawfare-assets-new.azureedge.net/assets/images/default-source/article-images/scaling-laws-logo.jpg?sfvrsn=7a7b38eb_3" /><p>Adi Tantravahi, founder of Cofactor, joins Kevin Frazier, the AI Innovation and Law Fellow at the University of Texas School of Law and a Senior Editor at Lawfare, to talk about how AI can help cut through the administrative red tape that underlies and, in many ways, undermines the modern healthcare system.<br /></p><p>Cofacto

Washington can’t promise allies it will never cut off their access to American AI or reach their data—but it can set, and eventually codify, clear rules for both.

On June 10, 2026, the FPF Center for Artificial Intelligence convened a Frontiers Workshop in Washington, DC. Held as part of FPF’s National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Department of Energy (DoE)-funded Privacy-Enhancing Technologies (PETs) Research Coordination Network, the workshop brought together privacy and frontier AI practitioners to examine challenges at the intersection of data […]

<p>Will AI change how we engage with nuclear weapons?</p>

GAAIA is the best federal frontier AI safety framework yet proposed, but its sweeping preemption of state AI laws makes it net-negative as written.

<img class="webfeedsFeaturedVisual" src="https://lawfare-assets-new.azureedge.net/assets/images/default-source/article-images/scaling-laws-logo.jpg?sfvrsn=7a7b38eb_3" /><p>Andy Masley joins Kevin Frazier, director of the AI Innovation and Law Program at the University of Texas School of Law and a senior editor at Lawfare, and Alan Rozenshtein, research director at Lawfare and associate professor at Minnesota Law, to unpack the increasingly contentious issues related to data centers.<br /></p><p>

Government dependence on private AI shifts policymaking from Congress and the civil service to procurement contracts—with no public input.

Three new reports show how AI power is concentrating, and why participation has to include the right to refuse. Source

<img class="webfeedsFeaturedVisual" src="https://lawfare-assets-new.azureedge.net/assets/images/default-source/article-images/scaling-laws-logo.jpg?sfvrsn=7a7b38eb_3" /><p>Kal Clark, co-founder of Zauron Labs, joins Kevin Frazier, the AI Innovation and Law Fellow at the University of Texas School of Law and a Senior Editor at Lawfare, to explain how AI is already reducing diagnostic errors in radiology.<br /></p><p>Kal details how Zauron’s AI system functions as a second-look safety layer, revie

A review of Josh Tyrangiel’s “AI for Good: How Real People Are Using Artificial Intelligence to Fix Things that Matter” (Simon & Schuster, 2026).

<p>Washington’s misplaced assumptions around export control and domestic regulations pose strategic risks to national stability.</p>

<p>Cory Doctorow discusses his perspective on artificial intelligence. </p>

Anthropic raised the possibility of a coordinated, verified AI development pause. Antitrust law might prevent that.

Scott Anderson sat down with his <em>Lawfare</em> colleagues Kevin Frazier, Roger Parloff, and Molly Roberts to talk through some of the week’s big news in AI.

As Washington negotiates AI guardrails with Beijing, it must understand why the AI debate in China is so quiet: control, not consent.

Inside the European Union’s latest bid to achieve technological sovereignty.

By Paige Garvin, FPF Communications Intern The Future of Privacy Forum hosted its third annual DC Privacy Forum: Advancing Principled Data Protection, AI, and Digital Governance Practices on June 10th, 2026. This year’s Forum gathered government officials, academics, civil society representatives, and privacy professionals to discuss developments in AI governance, privacy regulation, youth online safety, […]

<p dir="ltr">The orders direct federal agencies to prepare to defend against cryptographic attacks and contribute to U.S. quantum computing innovation.</p>

<img class="webfeedsFeaturedVisual" src="https://lawfare-assets-new.azureedge.net/assets/images/default-source/article-images/scaling-laws-logo.jpg?sfvrsn=7a7b38eb_3" /><p>Alan Rozenshtein, Research Director at Lawfare, spoke with Robert Wright—author of <em>Nonzero</em>, <em>The Moral Animal</em>, <em>The Evolution of God</em>, and <em>Why Buddhism Is True</em>, and the writer behind the NonZero Newsletter and podcast—about his new book, <em>The God Test: Artificial Intelligence and Our Coming

The new AI executive order disclaims a licensing mandate. Federal procurement can impose one anyway.

FAccT lands in Montreal and the Vatican enters the AI debate. Both circle the same question: who holds power over AI, and who can refuse it? Source

State regulations mandating AI firms to disclose information may run afoul of the First Amendment. California is an early test case.