Matt Steinberg
@matt-steinberg.bsky.social
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Tech Policy at Georgetown | fellow at New America's Open Technology Institute
I wrote a new brief with
@premmtrivedi.bsky.social
, AI Agents and Memory: Privacy and Power in the Model Context Protocol (MCP) Era). As AI agents reshape how we interact online, we discuss the new challenges agents pose for privacy, security, and competition. Hope this can be a helpful resource!
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AI Agents and Memory: Privacy and Power in the Model Context Protocol (MCP) Era
A brief on how to ensure agentic AI systems remain understandable, accountable, and aligned with the people they serve.
https://www.newamerica.org/oti/briefs/ai-agents-and-memory/
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Ultimately, i don’t think AI advertising works. Ads are inherently about differentiating your brand, and AI slop makes everything look the same.
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13 days ago
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solidarity tonight with all my fellow dodger fans on the east coast. stay strong
19 days ago
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If you want a lens into what the future of good tech could look like, this is it. I had the chance to help research and write "Making AI Work for the Public", a new report from
@newamerica.org
’s
#ReThinkAI
collective. Proud of this one — check it out!
www.newamerica.org/technology-a...
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Making AI Work for the Public: An ALT Perspective
AI is shaping government by optimizing bureaucracy that residents distrust. Instead, we need a framework to deliver value and legitimacy.
https://www.newamerica.org/technology-and-democracy/reports/making-ai-work-for-the-public/
24 days ago
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Remember the 2010s “Internet of Things” when our toasters suddenly connected to WiFi and became surveillance tools? We should be ready for the 2020s “AI of Things”.
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about 2 months ago
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Retweeting this so I can more easily find it again in 3 years when we inevitably need to refer back to it.
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about 2 months ago
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10 points to whoever wrote this line
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about 2 months ago
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reposted by
Matt Steinberg
Tech Policy Press
about 2 months ago
“The problem is that our rules assume technology is either a product (regulated for physical safety), a service (regulated for speech), or an app (governed through platforms). Embodied AI is all three, but no single regulatory agency or statute can oversee the full picture,” writes Matt Steinberg.
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AI Is Moving Into Physical Products, And Out of Regulatory Reach | TechPolicy.Press
Matt Steinberg discusses how AI wearables and toys blur the line between products and speech—raising urgent regulatory gaps in privacy and child safety.
https://www.techpolicy.press/ai-is-moving-into-physical-products-and-out-of-regulatory-reach/
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Excited to share my latest in
@techpolicypress.bsky.social
! Remember when the 2010s Internet of Things felt exciting... until we realized our toasters were surveillance devices? I look at what policies were missing back then, and suggest how we can adapt for the AI of Things.
tinyurl.com/35ah9sd7
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AI Is Moving Into Physical Products, And Out of Regulatory Reach | TechPolicy.Press
Matt Steinberg discusses how AI wearables and toys blur the line between products and speech—raising urgent regulatory gaps in privacy and child safety.
https://www.techpolicy.press/ai-is-moving-into-physical-products-and-out-of-regulatory-reach/
about 2 months ago
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How seriously are people taking the bit of good in Trumps Ai Action Plan? The emphasis on open-source and open-weight models is great for many reasons (no ai platform lock-in!) but i am too cynical to even start to consider possible implications of this
4 months ago
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This was a great convo
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4 months ago
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Hard to stress how bad this is. That's 79M medicaid enrollees ethnicities and home addresses. It's not just some abstract privacy issue. It's the kind of thing that can directly deter immigrants from trying to access basic healthcare
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4 months ago
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🚨 Excited to share an op-ed I wrote for
@fortune.com
about OpenAI’s recent attempt to partner with Hollywood -- and what it reveals about the future of AI and creative industries. The good news? AI companies have a chance to see that that the ethical and economic incentives are actually aligned.
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OpenAI can’t afford to ignore Hollywood’s warning
OpenAI’s Hollywood misadventure is reminiscent of an earlier dispute between the media industry and Silicon Valley.
https://fortune.com/2025/04/15/openai-hollywood-studios-ai-movies/
7 months ago
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So competition, not monopolies, leads to innovation after all! Thanks Bluesky 🙏
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12 months ago
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They’ll keep hiding their attack on research as “defending free speech” and “fighting censorship”. It’s scary, but very effective, and institutions need to figure out a strong counter asap
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12 months ago
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As November ends and the holidays approach, it’s officially time to panic about your Spotify Wrapped, and start binge-listening to avoid that one embarrassing artist in your top 5
12 months ago
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