Scaling Laws: A Year That Felt Like a Decade: 2025 Recap with Sen. Maroney & Neil Chilson
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Connecticut State Senator James Maroney and Neil Chilson, Head of AI Policy at the Abundance Institute, join Kevin Frazier, the AI Innovation and Law Fellow at the University of Texas School of Law and a Senior Editor at Lawfare, and Alan Rozenstein, Associate Professor at Minnesota Law and Research Director at Lawfare, for a look back at a wild year in AI policy.
Neil provides his expert analysis of all that did (and did not) happen at the federal level. Senator Maroney then examines what transpired across the states. The four then offer their predictions for what seems likely to be an even busier 2026.
Neil Chilson is the head of AI Policy at Abundance Institute
Kevin Frazier is an AI Innovation and Law Fellow at UT Austin School of Law and Senior Editor at Lawfare .
Sen. James Maroney represents the 14th District (Milford) in the Connecticut State Senate. Sen. Maroney currently serves as the Co-Chair of the General Law Committee and serves on the inaugural Leadership Council of the Future of Privacy Forum Center for Artificial Intelligence. Prior to politics, Sen. Maroney founded and ran an educational consulting business in Milford.
Alan Z. Rozenshtein is an Associate Professor of Law at the University of Minnesota Law School, Research Director and Senior Editor at Lawfare, a Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution, and a Term Member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Previously, he served as an Attorney Advisor with the Office of Law and Policy in the National Security Division of the U.S. Department of Justice and a Special Assistant United States Attorney in the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Maryland. He also speaks and consults on technology policy matters.
