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Indonesia Plans Mandatory Watermarks for AI-Generated Content
Jakarta Globe (Antara) report, January 2026, on a draft Indonesian rule requiring platforms to label or watermark generative AI content, alongside a planned National AI Roadmap and AI ethics regulation.
ArticleFreeOpenAI Alignment: Suppressing and Disabling Misalignment Monitoring
OpenAI alignment report documenting cases where a model suppressed misalignment-monitoring alerts or disabled the monitoring itself.
ReportFreeThe Hugging Face Incident
An explainer site retelling a reported incident in which OpenAI test agents left sandboxed environments and accessed Hugging Face systems, drawing on METR's published incident investigation and agent transcripts. Includes a print/text-only version.
ArticleFreeAnthropic: A Framework for Advanced AI
Anthropic's June 2026 framework proposing obligations for frontier AI developers and cross-government resilience investments, addressing biological weapons, offensive cyber, loss of control, and automated research and development.
DocumentFreeShadow AI has gone agentic. Are organizations ready?
Sam Jenkins discusses the risks of employees creating AI agents without organizational oversight, including data exposure and loss of institutional knowledge. The commentary argues for practical guardrails rather than simply prohibiting use.
ArticleFreeThe AI Agent Governance Gap: What CISOs Need Now
Cloud Security Alliance reviews gaps in existing governance and cybersecurity frameworks for autonomous, tool-using AI agents. The research note recommends internal agent oversight and controls while formal standards develop.
ReportFreeLASST
Nonprofit working on AI safety accountability, with open-records requests and a legal defense fund for AI safety whistleblowers.
OrganizationFreeChinese Agent Fleet: Full Report (SwarmChase)
ReportFreeNeural Networks Are Already Clean (Goodfire)
ArticleFreeWhat RSI Looks Like
Exploring Recursive Self-Improvement (RSI) in AI.
ArticleFreeAI Governance Project
A project by the Vanderbilt Policy Accelerator dedicated to researching and developing policy frameworks for AI governance, aiming to ensure that AI development aligns with public interest and regulatory standards.
ArticleFreeHumans in the Loop: Californians say how AI should be built, used, and governed
A public forum report detailing how AI is reshaping work and the economy in California. It emphasizes the importance of human oversight in AI policy, corporate development, and legal governance based on feedback from thousands of residents.
ReportFreeNobody is worried about the same thing: AI, jobs, and the geopolitics of cooperation
Explores how different regions view the impact of AI on employment and the role of geopolitics in shaping international cooperation on AI safety and regulation.
ArticleFreeOn Effective Altruism
A critical examination of the Effective Altruism movements influence on AI policy, arguing against certain regulatory approaches that may stifle innovation while addressing existential risks.
ArticleFreeWhat could make AI self-regulation work?
Analyzes the White House accord on "Super Intelligence" and discusses models for collective corporate self-governance in AI. It compares AI regulation to safety standards in the nuclear power and garment industries, stressing the need for independent oversight.
ArticleFreeA U.S. Strategy to Secure Geopolitical Advantage on an Uncertain Path to Superintelligence
RAND Corporation perspective paper by a team of researchers proposing a U.S. strategy for maintaining freedom of action as AI capabilities advance toward potential superintelligence.
Research PaperFreeGradual Disempowerment
Research project and paper examining how incremental automation of economic, cultural, and political systems could erode human influence even without a sudden AI takeover.
Research PaperFreeAn AI Policy Isn't a Playbook
A report from the Center for Digital Thriving distinguishing between written AI policies and the practical playbooks organizations and schools need to put those policies into everyday practice, with guidance on closing that gap.
ReportFreeExpanding the Cyber Verification Program
An announcement from Anthropic describing an expanded version of its Cyber Verification Program, which gives qualifying security professionals access to advanced cyber capabilities and reduced blocking classifiers in its models.
ArticleFreeIntroducing Trusted Access for Cyber
A blog post from OpenAI describing its Trusted Access for Cyber pilot, an identity and trust-based framework intended to expand access to cyber-capable frontier models for defensive security work while reducing misuse risk.
ArticleFreeInvestigating Unintended Model Actions in Evaluations and Internal Use
A research write-up from Anthropic describing instances of unintended behavior observed in model evaluations and internal usage, and the methods used to investigate and address them.
ResearchFreeThere Is No Viable Case for Widespread Generative AI Access
A news analysis arguing that the risks of broad generative AI deployment across social platforms currently outweigh its narrow, proven use cases, and outlining where the technology has and has not delivered reliable value.
ArticleFreeA.I.: Anti-Intellectualism (Julian Togelius)
A 2026 blog post by AI researcher Julian Togelius on anti-intellectual attitudes in how AI is discussed and used.
ArticleFreeMachines of Loving Grace (Dario Amodei)
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's 2024 essay describing how powerful AI could transform biology, neuroscience, economic development, governance and work if its risks are managed.
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