Lawfare Daily: The Policy Implications of the AI Vibe Shift

Kevin Frazier; Alex Bores; Mackenzie Arnold; Nat Purser

Cybersecurity & Tech

Lawfare Daily: The Policy Implications of the AI Vibe Shift

Kevin Frazier, Alex Bores, Mackenzie Arnold, Nat Purser

Tuesday, September 29, 2026, 7:00 AM

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Discussing recent developments in the AI risk environment.

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Lawfare Senior Editor Kevin Frazier is joined by Scaling Laws co-host Assemblyman Alex Bores of New York, AVERI Director of U.S. Policy Nat Purser, and Institute of Law and AI Managing Director of U.S. Law Mackenzie Arnold to discuss recent developments in the AI risk environment, what led us here, and what comes next for domestic and AI foreign policy. They also touch on other major pieces of AI news including President Trump’s announcement of an “AI Force” and an AI Czar, projections for the September 24 U.S.-China Summit, and other recent developments.

If you want to catch up on some of the major incidents driving the vibe shift, check out the podcast, “Lawfare Daily: Peter Salib on the Legal and Policy Ramifications of the OpenAI-Hugging Face Postmortems.”

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Kevin Frazier

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Kevin Frazier is a senior editor at Lawfare and the Director of the AI Innovation and Law Program at the University of Texas School of Law.

Alex Bores

Alex Bores is the Assemblymember for the 73rd District in the New York State Assembly.

Mackenzie Arnold

Mackenzie is the Director of US Policy at Institute for Law & AI. His research focuses on administrative law, agency decision making, and liability. Prior to joining LawAI, Mackenzie clerked on the Third Circuit Court of Appeals, worked in public health law at a New York nonprofit, and graduated, cum laude, from Harvard Law School. Before law school, Mackenzie completed a Fulbright Grant in Ourense, Spain and received his B.A. in political science, summa cum laude, from Boston College.