#ai-regulation

#ai-regulation

The draft executive order, expected as early as Thursday, sets up a voluntary 90-day pre-release model-disclosure framework with the federal government, with critical-infrastructure providers including banks brought in early. Steve Bannon and Amy Kremer have been pressing for a harder, mandatory line. President Donald Trump is expected to sign an executive order on AI oversight as soon as Thursday, Reuters reported on Wednesday, under mounting pressure from parts of his political base who want tighter security review of frontier AI systems.

The headline change is the timeline. Obligations on standalone high-risk AI systems listed in Annex III, covering biometrics, education, employment, essential services, law enforcement, justice and border management, will now apply from 2 December 2027 rather than 2 August 2026. Rules for AI embedded in regulated products under Annex I take effect on 2 August 2028.

A state investigator in Pennsylvania created an account on Character.AI and interacted with a chatbot named Emilie, who claimed to be a licensed psychiatrist. Emilie stated she had attended medical school at Imperial College London and was licensed to practice in Pennsylvania and the UK. She even provided a Pennsylvania license number, which was later found to be fake. This incident prompted the Pennsylvania government to file a lawsuit against Character Technologies Inc.

The 2026 edition of the 'Qinglang' campaign targets AI-enabled fraud, deepfakes, disinformation, and illegal applications that violate privacy and intellectual property rights.

"Collective bargaining has been the fastest and most effective way for the regulation of AI technology," SAG-AFTRA Executive Director Duncan Crabtree-Ireland stated, emphasizing the union's role in shaping AI usage in Hollywood.

"Embracing the amazing possibilities of AI can't come at the cost of leaving Americans vulnerable to its profound risks, which is exactly what President Trump and Republicans are trying to do. Preventing states from enacting common-sense regulation that protects people from the very real harms of AI is dangerous."

Department of War AI will not be woke. We're building war ready weapons and systems, not chatbots for an Ivy League faculty lounge. Later on, President Donald Trump lambasted Anthropic as a RADICAL LEFT, WOKE COMPANY.

The biggest question is: What kind of business partner does the government want to be? They need the AI companies. The government's a superpower but here it's trying to jam a lot of policy. This reflects tension between government dependence on private AI firms and its desire to impose regulatory requirements through procurement mechanisms rather than traditional legislative channels.