What Is the AI Safety Index — and How Are AI Companies Graded?
The AI Safety Index is an independent report card that grades leading AI companies on how seriously they manage risk. Here's how the grading actually works.
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Every AI News story tagged with both AI Policy & Ethics and Regulation — the two topics side by side, updated as new articles publish.
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What Are Lethal Autonomous Weapons — and Why Won't the UN Ban Them?
A lethal autonomous weapon can pick its own target and fire without a human pulling the trigger. Here's what that means, and why over a decade of UN talks still haven't produced a ban.
Read more →Midjourney Asks Court to Force Studios to Reveal Internal AI Use
Midjourney has asked a federal judge to compel Disney, Universal, and Warner Bros. to disclose how they use AI internally, arguing the studios engage in the very practices they are suing it for.
Read more →What Is AI Bias — and How Does It Affect Decisions?
AI bias is a systematic error in AI systems that produces unfair results for specific groups, shaping decisions in hiring, healthcare, and criminal justice. Here is what causes it and how to recognize it.
Read more →What Is an AI Companion — and Why Are Governments Regulating Them?
AI companions are chatbots built for emotional connection, not task completion. As apps like Replika and Character.AI reach tens of millions of users, governments in China, the US, and Europe are introducing rules to protect vulnerable users.
Read more →What Is AI in Healthcare — and How Is It Changing Medicine?
AI is helping doctors detect diseases earlier, discover drugs faster, and reduce diagnostic errors — but it also raises serious questions about bias, privacy, and the limits of machine judgment.
Read more →UN's First Global AI Assessment Warns Governance Window Is Closing
A 40-member UN scientific panel released the first independent global AI assessment on July 1, warning that current safeguards cannot keep pace with the technology and that benefits risk widening global inequality.
Read more →What Is AI Safety — and Why Does It Matter?
AI safety is the research field focused on making sure AI systems behave as intended and don't cause unintended harm. Here's what that means in practice — and why governments and labs are racing to get it right.
Read more →What Is a Deepfake — and How Can You Spot One?
A deepfake is AI-generated media in which a real person's face, voice, or likeness has been digitally replaced or fabricated. Here's how the technology works, where it causes harm, and how to tell real from fake.
Read more →Anthropic Accuses Alibaba of Record-Scale AI Distillation Attack on Claude
Anthropic told US senators that operators linked to Alibaba used nearly 25,000 fake accounts and 28.8 million exchanges to illicitly copy Claude's capabilities into Alibaba's Qwen model — calling it the largest known attack of its kind.
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