How will AI agents impact the global system of migration management and civil registration? And could governments be any more excited about the possibilities? See our newest paper, forthcoming in the Statelessness and Citizenship Review. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Updates from the Long and Winding Road...to a Global Treaty on Frontier AI. open.substack.com/pub/futureof...

www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anth... Apparently Anthropic now believes in copyright.

"The problem with treating tools as moral agents..." I don't actually know anyone who is suggesting we treat tools as moral agents. This op ed would be stronger if the author was more specific. A ‘post-human’ vision of AI is already causing problems wapo.st/410SVUX

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/30/t... How is it constitutional for CA to make its own supply chain determination? The war over Anthropic is spiralling, not unlike the actual war.

One year after the devastating DOGE cuts to US food assistance in refugee camps around the world, aid agencies have adopted "differentiated assistance," reserving food aid for only the most needy. www.arabnews.com/node/2637423...

"Preserve the boundary between people and machines by not designing anthropomorphic AI, not granting AI legal personhood, and not humanizing AI products..." www.humanetech.com/ai-roadmap This blurs the two types of personality together, making it difficult for legislators to know what to do.

It's been a while since I've been so excited to read a paper as Cas Sunstein's "Does AI Have Rights?" (though I disagree that the capacity to suffer is enough for rights.) One quibble: children do have the right to privacy per the CRC, Art. 16. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Source: The White House (.gov) share.google/WniKmwlCSoiXyd iWM The proposed national framework for AI also says nothing about AI personhood, though it leads with AI safety for children. The proposal to preempt state laws is more nuanced and, as usual, one appreciates its brevity.

After months of saying it was impossible to smuggle chips to China because they are too bulky, the government has finally issued an indictment. www.justice.gov/opa/pr/chine...

When we co-launched Future of Citizenship on AI personhood and standing under the law, we sometimes worried we were being too sci-fi. Nope. "'The future of A.I. is personified,' she told her audience. 'It will be formed in the shape of humans.'" www.nytimes.com/2026/03/25/u...

Breaking... fortune.com/2026/03/26/a...

According to Katrina Manson in Project Maven, there may be at least two classified Pentagon projects to create an "autonomous weapon" for a hypothetical, future conflict over Taiwan, such as a drone guided by AI when there is no internet. Is this the type of weapon Anthropic was opposed to?

Anthropic has won an injunction in the CA supply chain case. "Punishing Anthropic for bringing public scrutiny to the government’s contracting position is classic illegal First Amendment retaliation." Except the problem started before the public discussion in a classified setting.

More developments in AI personhood: Warner v. Gilbarco, Inc. - AI is not a person, sharing work product with AI does not breach the work product doctrine. United States v. Heppner - communications with AI were not privileged because (citing to Ira Robbins) there’s no “human relationship” with AI.

Baltimore, a legal person, is now suing X.AI, another legal person, for the crimes of Grok, an object, as the responsibility gap continues to melt our legal system. futureofcitizenship.substack.com/p/legal-pers...

Giving AI an internal "Constitution" does not, in any way, hurt our human constitutions, treaties, charters or laws. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Some depositions in the Pentagon v. Anthropic, taken under oath, are now available. From Thiyagu Ramasamy of Anthropic: "Anthropic does not maintain any back door or remote 'kill switch' in Claude."

Updated with new info about efforts in Congress to renew warrant-less wiretapping under section 702…a bombshell from Kash Patel that the US is now purchasing bulk data on Americans…and more... futureofcitizenship.substack.com/p/a-reading-...

Is Joe Kent's resignation linked to the Anthropic dispute? www.propublica.org/article/trum...

open.substack.com/pub/futureof... Update: The government has commissioned an unnamed “outside vendor” to asses the extent to which Anthropic is a supply chain risk; says Anthropic employs a “high number” of foreigners and is “untrustworthy.”

The industry is really leaning in on robot anthropomorphizing. www.wsj.com/business/sou... via @WSJ

The industry is really leaning in on robot anthropomorphizing. www.wsj.com/business/sou... via @WSJ

Should AI be designated critical infrastructure? www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...

The CA judge (Judge Lin) may throw the Anthropic case out because it's a political question and the gov has wide discretion over nat security. See the Pentagon papers, Trump v. Hawaii, and the Huawei case: www.sdxcentral.com/news/huawei-...

Where to begin. AI is not a person under the law, so it already lacks freedom of speech. My advice to law makers is to slooooowwww doowwwwnnnn. Remember the most important law of them all - the law of unintended consequences. www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/94/202...

A chatbot can't practice law. But who is responsible for bad legal advice given by a chatbot? law.stanford.edu/2026/03/07/d...

www.courtlistener.com/docket/72379... “While we are not privy to the details of how Anthropic and the Pentagon’s contractual relationship broke down, we are concerned that the Defendants’ action harms public debate on the risks and benefits of AI...”

When talking about Anthropic v. DoD, I recommend saying "bulk data collection and analysis" rather than "mass surveillance" since the latter sounds scary and is technically not correct.

Yikes. natlawreview.com/article/tenn...

Qatar and UAE are urging an off ramp for Trump for the Iran conflict. Qatar in particular has maintained a good relationship with Iran in past years. Both UAE and Qatar are big investors in the US AI industry. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

www.nysenate.gov/legislation/... NY is getting ready to functionally ban AI “lawyers.”

www.newscientist.com/article/2517... Cortical labs announces that its biocomputer can now play Doom. The promise is a biocomputer that is much more energy efficient than silicon AI. The dangers are that we are further blurring the lines between machine and human.

AI-generated art can’t be copyrighted after Supreme Court declines to review the rule www.theverge.com/policy/88767...

The answer to Anthropic v. Pentagon is neither Anthropic nor the Pentagon, but Congress. Here is a deep dive the long history of the intelligence agencies collection and analysis of unclassified commercial bulk data on Americans: www.brennancenter.org/our-work/ana...