June 20 is World Refugee Day. Let's celebrate all the refugees and their family members who work in AI. www.unhcr.org/until-everyo...

Good name. www.stopkillerrobots.org

As we watch the Administration lash out at Anthropic, here's something else that happened: wapo.st/4xu67AD

Is legal personhood right for AI? And if so, why? Our article is out now from Case Western Reserve Journal of Law, Technology & the Internet scholarlycommons.law.case.edu/jolti/

Yesterday, FISA officially expired (though directives remain in place until 2027) leaving companies in a legal gray zone. Anthropic has also shut down access to its most powerful models at the government's request. Gift WSJ article: www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anth...

Look Who's Talking Redux: A court in German appears to conclude that AI isn't speaking, or anyway, that Google summaries aren't. the-decoder.com/landmark-ger...

open.substack.com/pub/futureof... Updated, as the debate over legal personhood for AI goes international...

So, what's in the new Illinois AI safety law? The state joins NY and CA, but goes a step beyond by requiring third-party audits. Is this a good idea? Time will tell. It's the "laboratory of the states" in action. capitolnewsillinois.com/news/illinoi...

Canada's national strategy on AI comes off as backward-looking and tired. It treats AI as a mere extension of existing technology, rather than a social transformation. ised-isde.canada.ca/site/ised/en...

Future of Citizenship stands in solidarity with Temple Emanu-El-Beth-Sholom. montrealgazette.com/news/local-c...

An update from Politico on the push in Congress to pass something, anything, on AI safety before the midterms. Congress set to unveil AI draft that would preempt state laws politi.co/4dPGBy7 via @politico

Douthat in the Times, on the Magnifica Humanitas: "Maintaining a cultural firewall against a growing belief in A.I. personhood will take much more than brusque dismissal." www.nytimes.com/2026/05/27/o...

But will "the world’s top technical and scientific talent" continue "to gravitate to where the frontier is being built" if the US stops giving visas? www.anthropic.com/research/202...

Really cool research on AI "introspection" from LawZero. saifh-github.github.io/llm-dropout-...

www.npr.org/2026/05/11/n... An overview of the anti-AI personhood laws in the USA.

"Putin says he thinks Ukraine conflict 'coming to an end'" www.bbc.com/news/article...

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0... Worried about AI taking your job? Copyright law is your new best friend. And yes, computer code is copyrighted.

What is the right response to AI that breaks the law? www.wsj.com/tech/elon-mu...

www.theatlantic.com/technology/2... Great overview of "Claudia-gate" and machine consciousness.

Mars and the Earth are both very cool and quite similar. But they are also different. The name of one starts with M and the other with E. One is covered in life and while other is a dead rock. One is where we live while the other is not. Are any of these differences special? Which ones?

Here comes the White House EO on AI safety pre-screening...

The Tenn AI personhood bills have passed and are awaiting signature. Instead of designating as a class A felony knowingly training AI to, among other things, "act as a sentient human" will instead mandate a study of the question. wapp.capitol.tn.gov/apps/BillInf... capitol.tn.gov/Bills/114/Am...

Another step towards artificial neurons? www.popularmechanics.com/technology/r...

Because nothing says "voluntary" agreements like the threat of a supply chain risk designation: www.nist.gov/news-events/...

Chief Justice of Australia Stephen Gageler asks what are human judges for in the age of AI? Is it a requirement of due process that humans be judged by other humans, even if AI is a better judge? www.hcourt.gov.au/sites/defaul...

This seems like a strange way to summarize a book that ends with its author sitting in a cave by himself, no closer to his goal of understanding consciousness than when he started. www.theatlantic.com/books/2026/0...

This is a great paper from researchers at Microsoft on why consciousness matters and the dangers of false attribution. But it can also be dangerous to present rights as a zero-sum game where science is uncertain. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Honoured to have attended the 2026 NYU Mind, Ethics, and Policy Summit earlier this month to learn from some of the top thinkers on the most important questions of our age: What is sentience, and what does it mean for moral status and rights? @jeffsebo.bsky.social

Who is speaking, the chatbot...or the company? constitutioncenter.org/amp/blog/min... See our paper: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... And for another view: www.startribune.com/ai-regulatio...

Do humans have the right to receive animal speech? What about chatbot speech? See our latest paper, with NYU philosopher Jeff Sebo. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

AI "are analogous to such past technologies as writing, print, markets, bureaucracies, and democracies." Sure, except if we humans moved to the moon for a few years, these things would all lie dormant until our return. We wouldn't return to a whole bunch of new books and zoning regs. science.org

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.