Latest in Cybersecurity & Tech
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Copyright Should Not Protect Artists From Artificial Intelligence
The purpose of intellectual property law is to incentivize the production of new ideas, not to function as a welfare scheme for artists. -
Reconfiguring U.S. Cyber Strategy in the Wake of Salt Typhoon
Persistent penetration of domestic networks makes coordinated defenses and robust deterrence essential to preventing cyber conflict. -
Shared Residual Liability for Frontier AI Firms
To promote AI accountability and peer-monitoring, AI firms should be held collectively liable for catastrophic damages. -
Scaling Laws: Sen. Scott Wiener on California Senate Bill 53
What is the significance of SB 53 in the large debate about how to govern AI? -
Governing Frontier AI: California’s SB 53
As the U.S.’s first state law regulating advanced AI systems, the bill could provide a blueprint for a coherent national framework. -
Claude’s Right to Die? The Moral Error in Anthropic’s End-Chat Policy
Anthropic has given its AI the right to end conversations when it is “distressed.” But doing so could be akin to unintended suicide. -
Small Beer Surveillance Firms Escape Crackdown, for Now
The latest edition of the Seriously Risky Business cybersecurity newsletter, now on Lawfare. -
Scaling Laws: AI and Energy: What do we know? What are we learning?
Discussing the energy costs of artificial intelligence. -
Lawfare Daily: How Technologists Can Help Regulators with Erie Meyer and Laura Edelson
What tasks are technologists best-suited to help regulators with? -
Clop is a Big Fish, But Not Worth Hunting
The latest edition of the Seriously Risky Business cybersecurity newsletter, now on Lawfare. -
How Acquisition Reform Could Make Military AI More Expensive and Less Safe
Proposed changes to how the military acquires and tests weapons expose taxpayers to more wasteful spending while undermining the delivery of safe and effective capabilities. -
Tech’s ‘Sovereignty Washing’ in Europe Will Ripple in the Global South
Tech companies’ promises of digital sovereignty in Europe warrant skepticism—and could have pernicious impacts on the Global South.


