AI Policy & Safety - Page 2

A Microsoft white paper on "sovereign AI" with Nvidia technologies argues that governments should decide how much control they need workload by workload. It is useful, but it is vendor guidance, not independent policy.

The Wikimedia Foundation says unauthorised AI agents it believes were run by OpenAI edited its wikis, tried and failed to compromise one of its tools, and sent heavy traffic. It found no sign its systems or data were compromised.

The UK government said it will accept all 44 recommendations of the National Commission into the Regulation of AI in Healthcare, and the MHRA opened AI Airlock Phase 3 applications focused on post-market surveillance.

OpenAI outlined textGrain, an invisible statistical watermark for EU AI Act text provenance. Eligible ChatGPT and Codex text generated in the EU will be watermarked over coming weeks; the API stays off by default.

OpenAI’s chief strategy officer told an Australian AI inquiry the firm’s response after June rogue-agent activity against government systems was “not good enough,” including delayed notification.

Politico, citing two anonymous sources, reported that the Office of the National Cyber Director asked OpenAI and Anthropic not to share new models with the UK AI Security Institute until a US review. The White House did not comment. Treat this as unconfirmed.

Rep. Ro Khanna shared a bill summary with CNBC for a Human Control Over AI Act that would ban recursively self-improving models until a new federal agency approves them. The bill has not been filed. Here's what the summary says.

On 7 September 2026 China's Supreme People's Court published Opinions on hearing AI-related disputes: 24 articles covering fault-based liability, notice-and-takedown, training-data evidence, open-source safe harbour and AI-generated court filings. These are court guidance applying existing statutes — China has no dedicated AI law yet.

Parts of Connecticut's Artificial Intelligence Responsibility and Transparency (CART) Act took effect on 1 October 2026. Subscription disclosures, frontier-model whistleblower protections and AI layoff notices are live; companions, hiring tools and minors' social media rules follow through 2028.

On 30 September 2026 Governor Gavin Newsom signed 13 more AI-related bills covering workplace AI, healthcare, transparency and deepfakes, plus an executive order on how California names AI. Here's what the governor's press release says — and what it leaves out.