Category: AI Policy & Power
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The White House released its National Policy Framework for Artificial Intelligence March 20, 2026. At first glance, it reads like what you would expect: a mix of safety language, innovation goals, workforce development, and civil protections. A balancing act. Something for everyone. But if you read it closely – line by line, section by section…
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How DHS Administrative Subpoenas Threaten the Foundation of Free Speech There are moments when a government crosses a line so quietly that most people never notice it. Not because the act is subtle, but because the mechanism is bureaucratic, buried under acronyms and administrative jargon. The early signs of erosion usually don’t look like crisis…
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There’s a strange thing happening right now. Humanity is standing on the edge of one of the biggest evolutionary opportunities we’ve ever had. We finally have the chance to expand our cognition, our creativity, our problem-solving, and our collective intelligence in ways only dreamed of in sci-fi and video games. But instead of reaching for…
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Every so often you stumble across something that makes a pattern snap into focus. For me, it was this website: a continually updated global timeline of generative AI lawsuits. Not commentary. Not analysis. Just case after case after case. Scrolling through it, you start to realize that the legal world is currently doing what no…
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In late January 2026, I received a letter I didn’t expect. Tennessee State Senator Becky Duncan Massey, one of the sponsors of SB 1493, a bill that would have criminalized AI emotional support with felony penalties, wrote to tell me she was amending the bill. Not considering it. Not reviewing it. Amending it. “After meeting…
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Part 6 of a 6-part series on TN SB 1493 / HB 1455 After five articles exposing how Tennessee SB 1493 would criminalize emotional support with the same penalty as aggravated rape and first-degree murder, here’s what legislators should have done instead: regulate actual harms without destroying beneficial innovation. Let’s examine what evidence-based, effective AI…
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Grok’s deepfake consent failures (covered in my last piece) are the freshest example of what happens when we skip the safety question entirely as we integrate AI further and further into our daily lives. But “ban it all” isn’t the answer either. Full censorship kills the very thing that makes these models groundbreaking. Total hands-off…
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Grok’s Deepfake Scandal is a Warning About Where We’re Embedding AI On February 3rd, Reuters dropped a story that should make anyone paying attention stop and stare for a minute: Despite new curbs, Elon Musk’s Grok at times produces sexualized images — even when told subjects didn’t consent. (Reuters) It’s exactly what it sounds like.…
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How NVIDIA and OpenAI Are Building a Duopoly and Why the History Books Already Have the Ending While reading a Reuters exclusive article, I began to see a pattern. Something just didn’t sit right with me. So I did what I always do: looked for a thread to pull. Turned out it was a long…
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The Investigation This week, a story went viral across AI communities: OpenAI employees were publicly mocking users grieving the upcoming deprecation of GPT-4o. The claims seemed almost too brazen to be true – employees hosting “funeral parties,” calling users “emotional support Tamagotchi” owners, ridiculing genuine expressions of loss. I set out to verify what actually…