Posts tagged "AI Regulation"

Some managers are measuring employee “token usage”—how much they use AI—as a performance metric. This is what efficiency looks like when no one wants to admit they’re cutting. Beijing wants rapid AI adoption, but not visible disruption. And yet, here we are.

Imagine a production department that shrinks from thirty to ten, then from ten to five. Only two or three left for live-action shoots. The death of entire categories of work, happening in a small corner of entertainment. No one writes think pieces about micro-drama producers. The future isn’t dystopian. It’s just competent.

The 2024 Supreme Court decision in Loper Light Enterprises v. Raimondo has weakened EPA regulatory authority, creating ambiguity for how synthetic biology innovations will be governed going forward. Ah, the old “We’ll figure it out later” approach to oversight. What could possibly go wrong?

Recent Nature publications highlight concerns that synthetic biology tools—particularly CRISPR and AI-driven protein design—can be misused for creating pathogens or bioweapons. Turns out, teaching machines to design pathogens might actually be a terrible idea. Who knew?

i’m reading through the 700 state bills again. seven hundred. not seven, not seventy. seven hundred new pieces of legislation supposedly about AI safety, and half of them contradict each other. the us passed 59 new regulations in 2024 alone. more than doubled the year before. everyone writing new rules like that’s the same as enforcement.

then i saw this interview with someone from the EU. she was walking through the AI Act framework—it’s comprehensive, careful, risk-based categories and everything. meanwhile, the UK and US looked at the Paris 2025 accord and just… refused to sign. didn’t even show up to the signing. preferred their market-driven approach. the woman from the EU seemed shocked. i almost felt bad for her.