New Publication in Press at the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology!! Why Do People Dislike Gender Role Violators? A Test of Three Models Led by Alan Lambert, and a variety of terrific colleagues (publication coming soon).

I wish the AI discourse would move on from binaries— “yay or nay,” destroy us or save us—to a real discussion about democratic control and regulation. It’s like we’ve forgotten that government can competently do such things.

I agree with this, and the thing too is that LLMs are the printing press: you cannot uninvent a technology. social media as it currently exist are specific networks from specific companies and you can destroy networks. modern social media can be made to go away in a way that LLMs simply cannot.

A judge temporarily blocked the Trump administration's designation, clearing the way for Anthropic to keep doing business without the label starting next week. www.wired.com/story/anthro...

The AI economy looks...really precarious. So @matteowong.bsky.social & I did a bunch of reporting to try to figure out what happens when a potential bubble collides with a war in Iran and a potential resource shortage. The answer is...arguably the most dire stuff i've heard from smart ppl in a while

Meta and YouTube designed addictive products that harmed young people, jury finds

Vietnam is Southeast Asia’s first country with a comprehensive AI law. Modeled on the EU’s risk-based approach, it emphasizes human oversight, risk classification, and digital sovereignty as part of Hanoi’s 2045 development push, reports Tech Policy Press fellow Lam Le.

The EU is pushing ahead with AI Act changes that weaken protections for high-risk systems and leave no meaningful path to redress, even as evidence of harm mounts, write CDT Europe’s Laura Lazaro Cabrera and Magdalena Maier.

A Belgian aristocrat who served as diplomat and European commissioner will have to face trial regarding his possible involvement in the murder of Patrice Lumumba, the Congolese prime minister and independence leader assassinated in 1961. www.ft.com/content/16c5...

Jürgen Habermas, the leading figure of the second generation of the Frankfurt School, has died at the age of 96. www.faz.net/aktuell/feui...

Big scoop from @willknight.bsky.social: Nvidia will spend $26 billion over the next five years to build open source artificial intelligence models, according to a 2025 financial filing www.wired.com/story/nvidia...

works for visual arts too

The U.S. military used advanced AI to strike 1,000 targets in Iran within 24 hours, a tool that could be difficult for the Pentagon to give up even as it severs ties with the company that created it.

🧵 1/4 📢 On human rights and AI: I testified before the Senate's Standing Committee on Human Rights (RIDR) on Jan 23. Full session:

OFFS. When Iran tried to interefere in 2020, researchers caught them and called them out. Then the Benz-Weiss-Taibbi-Musk-Jordan-Trump axis labeled those researchers "censors" ... and set about defunding them and dismantling their organizations.

The Pentagon wants AI that can fight wars without limits. Anthropic says there are lines it won't cross. This week, that standoff turned into an all-out confrontation. To unpack the news, Justin Hendrix spoke to Kat Duffy from the Council on Foreign Relations and Amos Toh from the Brennan Center:

"This environment in which we're suspicious of each other is illiberal. Liberal theorists assumed that our rights were going to be enjoyed in community." "How to Become an Algorithmic Problem" w. José Marichal on @techpolicypress.bsky.social, such a great episode!! 🎧 www.techpolicy.press/podcast/

Breaking news: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth threatened Anthropic that the government could invoke its powers to compel the AI firm to share its technology in the name of national security if it does not agree by Friday to terms favorable to the military.

Hello my 3 non-bot followers: my book Governing AI - A Primer is out! I really hope you read it and grill me with the kind of feedback that Bluesky has socialized all of us into. www.cambridge.org/us/universit...

Hocamdı, kadın hakları ve barış mücadelesinde her zaman en öndeydi. Çok üzgünüm. Huzur içinde uyusun.

It is concentration camp bullshit like the Nazis did.

Epstein’s economic power among academics was made possible by a capitalist system that makes higher education dependent on the charity economy rather than a public good supported by taxing the rich

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Statement from the family of Alex Pretti.

Predictable: www.wired.com/story/dhs-da...

Our reporting has found that ICE sent 600 immigrant kids to detention in federal shelters in 2025. A 17-year-old was detained at a traffic stop because officers couldn’t make contact with his dad, who is deaf. Another kid ended up in a shelter after making a wrong turn:

Just saw on KARE 11 that this boy was sent to a detainment facility in Texas and that his family didn't know his whereabouts for almost 24 hours.

“… advances in AI will paradoxically raise the profile of a comprehensive liberal arts education … as critical thinking, discernment and judgment will stand out as core human skills that guide automation.” My latest www.seattletimes.com/opinion/ai-c...

🧵 Trump administration AI policy is widely described as deregulatory. This description is misleading. What's happening is not the absence of governance but its rearrangement--intensive state intervention operating through mechanisms we don't typically call regulation. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

"I could not move, because history had me glued to the seat. . . It felt like Sojourner Truth’s hands were pushing me down on one shoulder & Harriet Tubman’s hands were pushing me down on another shoulder, & I could not move." — Claudette Colvin Claudette Colvin ¡Presente! has died at age 86. 💔

Breaking News: Federal agents shot two people in Portland, Oregon, local officials said, prompting calls to end an immigration crackdown in the city.

Masked ICE agents reportedly arrest 3 on Seattle's Aurora Avenue North www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

Just days into 2026, the killing of 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good by a federal immigration officer in Minneapolis, Minnesota, has sparked protests around the US. If you’re planning to protest, here’s how to safeguard your digital security.

New op-ed: SRI Executive Director Monique Crichlow reflects on Canada's AI strategy—and why science must stay at the heart of AI policy, not just adoption and growth. Read more: sciencepolicy.ca/posts/ai-and...

The parallels between the Red Scare of the 1950s and today’s assault on higher ed remind us of the need to join communities of resistance. Read Joan Wallach Scott (former chair of AAUP’s Committee on Academic Freedom and Tenure) on the stakes of defending higher ed as a public good.

"These findings support an overall picture of an environment that furthers the objectification of women. The control of the user and the lack of consent of the subject are both explicitly promoted."

"... India’s IT ministry issuing an order ... that X must take action to restrict Grok from generating content that is 'obscene, pornographic, vulgar, indecent, sexually explicit, pedophilic, or otherwise prohibited' ... X must respond within 72 hours or risk losing the 'safe harbor' protections."

“Venezuela has become the laboratory for the new US security strategy. It is an experiment based on the economic control that the United States exerts over the region.” From the @wired en Espanol team, who’ll be covering this story from the region.

New Interview: www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

Your teacher in 2005: don't use Wikipedia as a source! People can change it! Use dot gov sites! Teacher in 2025: don't use dot gov sites, they say Tylenol causes autism. Wikipedia is curated by honest and trustworthy nerds who require real citations. 1

When we fight, we win! ✊🏽✊🏽✊🏽

Most read on Tech Policy Press in 2025: "As red teaming becomes further institutionalized in AI governance, we must examine whether adversarial testing genuinely interrogates system risk or primarily fulfills externally imposed accountability rituals." — Jen Weedon.

A small (personal) example of this book’s intellectual dishonesty: My father-in-law is reading In Covid’s Wake, and excitedly told me he found a passage where I’m quoted. The quote in question is me saying the FBI worked to censor speech on social media. Huh? When did I say that?!

Nina Jankowicz: “They’re not doing this because they have any evidence of censorship — they lost a Supreme Court case that made those claims… They’re doing this because the group of researchers and advocates have stood up to liars like Donald Trump and the platforms that enable them.”

NEW: I wrote a brief history of the U.S. childhood vaccine schedule for @ConversationUS - how it was built, why it works, and what's now at stake. theconversation.com/rfk-jr-wants...

Zoe Weissman, a sophomore at Brown University, joins us to discuss the shooting on Brown's campus in Providence, Rhode Island. She was in middle school in Parkland, Florida during the Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School massacre. She is now an advocate for gun control and gun violence prevention.

Trump's latest attempt to thwart state AI rules will probably also fail, as federal agencies like the DOJ and FTC cannot encroach on lawful state regulations without a clear delegation from Congress, Olivier Sylvain argues:

US policy on artificial intelligence is caught between flamboyant, fantastical claims and government leaders deferring to industry without the imagination to drive toward real societal progress, write Arati Prabhakar and Asad Ramzanali. There is a better way forward, they say.