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A U.S. lawmaker asserts that commercialization of fusion energy, made feasible by AI plasma modeling, will transform society, and introduces a bipartisan bill to allocate $10 billion for its development.
Congress passed legislation defining 'foreign adversary controlled entities' based on Chinese shareholder and executive criteria, receiving strong bipartisan support in both House and Senate.
A podcast episode explores potential AI apocalypse scenarios, such as hacked infrastructure and bioweapons, while discussing the bipartisan political focus on AI safety and statements from tech leaders like Sam Altman and Dario Amodei.
An Anthropic researcher quits over AI safety concerns, prompting bipartisan legislative efforts in Congress to regulate AI development, including proposals for emergency shutdowns and bans on superintelligence.
Eliezer Yudkowsky emphasizes the urgent need to make AI safety a bipartisan issue to avoid deaths caused by AI.
The U.S. Senate is negotiating a bill that would impose a 'duty of care' on developers of advanced AI models, giving the government power to block unsafe releases and involving bipartisan discussions on AI safety measures.
Senator Peter Welch highlights the need for AI protections and is working on a bipartisan bill with Senator Bennet to establish guardrails ensuring AI benefits society.
A Verge Decoder podcast episode explores the growing bipartisan backlash against AI data centers, featuring reporting from Hernando County, Florida, where a conservative group protested and helped pass a moratorium on data center construction.
Kara Swisher and former Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo discuss the looming AI job crisis, criticizing Congress for failing to prepare workers and proposing a bipartisan effort to address the impact of AI on employment.
Bipartisan legislation introduced by Senators Mark Kelly and Jim Justice would require companies to clearly label AI interactions, with additional protections for health and financial conversations.
A comprehensive compilation of poll data from Gallup, Pew, and other major pollsters reveals that Americans increasingly oppose AI datacenters, distrust AI in general, and view AI companies negatively, representing a significant and bipartisan shift in public sentiment.
US lawmakers are introducing a bipartisan amendment that would ban the use of automated license plate readers (ALPRs) for any purpose other than tolling by recipients of federal highway funding, effectively ending most police ALPR programs nationwide.
Anthropic released results from its first 'Anthropic Public Record' survey of nearly 52,000 Americans, revealing top hopes (curing diseases, helping the disabled) and fears (job loss, cognitive dependency, misinformation) about AI, along with strong bipartisan support for government regulation.