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AI Frontiers

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“Can Copyright Survive AI?” by Laura González Salmerón

Thursday, June 19, 2025 • Duration 15:58

Since 2020, there have been nearly 40 copyright lawsuits filed against AI companies in the US. In this intensifying battle over AI-generated content, creators, AI companies, and policymakers are each pushing competing narratives. These arguments, however, tend to get so impassioned that they obscure three crucial questions that should be addressed separately — yet they rarely are.

First, how does existing copyright law apply to AI? Most existing statutes do not explicitly mention AI. Some legal experts, however, argue that courts can adapt traditional frameworks through judicial interpretation. Others contend that copyright's human-centered assumptions make such adaptation impossible.

Second, where current law proves inadequate, how should the original purpose of copyright law guide new solutions? Copyright was conceived by the Founders to “promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts,” by providing creators with limited monopolies over their work. In the AI era, multiple stakeholders have legitimate claims: creators [...]

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Outline:

(01:40) How Does Existing Copyright Law Apply to AI?

(05:22) Should We Rethink Copyright in the Age of AI?

(07:41) How Should Broader Implications Influence the AI Copyright Debate?

(11:40) The Current State of AI Copyright Battles

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First published:
June 19th, 2025

Source:
https://aifrontiersmedia.substack.com/p/can-copyright-survive-ai

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Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

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“Avoiding an AI Arms Race with Assurance Technologies” by Nora Ammann, Sarah Hastings-Woodhouse

Monday, June 16, 2025 • Duration 15:27

As AI's transformative potential and national security significance grow, so has the incentive for countries to develop AI capabilities that outcompete their adversaries. Leaders in both the US and Chinese governments have indicated that they see their countries in an arms race to harness the economic and strategic advantages of powerful AI.

Yet as the benefits of AI come thick and fast, so might its risks. In a 2024 Science article, a broad coalition of experts from academia and industry raised the alarm about the serious threats that advanced AI may soon pose — such as AI misuse or loss of control events leading to large-scale cyber, nuclear, or biological calamities.

Because these risks wouldn’t be constrained by geography, it is in everyone's interests to mitigate them, hence calls by scientists from multiple countries for international efforts to regulate AI. However, an international AI development deal will only succeed [...]

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Outline:

(02:23) Assurance mechanisms for AI

(05:23) Hardware-enabled mechanisms

(08:12) Designing an Effective HEMs-Enabled Assurance Regime

(08:45) Pre-emptive

(09:46) Flexible

(10:31) Privacy-preserving

(11:44) Multilateral

(12:36) Unlocking New Policy Options

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First published:
June 16th, 2025

Source:
https://aifrontiersmedia.substack.com/p/avoiding-an-ai-arms-race-with-assurance

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“Can “Location Verification” Stop AI Chip Smuggling?” by Scott J Mulligan

Monday, May 19, 2025 • Duration 10:28

US export controls are meant to keep advanced AI chips out of rival hands — but tens of thousands slip through each year. A new bill aims to change that by checking where these chips end up.

US Senator Tom Cotton (R-AK) introduced the Chip Security Act on May 9, which, if enacted, will require “a location verification mechanism on export-controlled advanced chips.” A bipartisan House companion bill was introduced on May 15 by Representatives Bill Huizenga (R-MI), Bill Foster (D-IL), John Moolenaar (R-MI), and Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL). These bills were proposed as the Trump administration works toward replacing the Biden-era diffusion rule, which set up a tiered system governing countries’ access to AI chips exported from the US. Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) Director Michael Kratsios recently called for “strict and simple” export controls, while White House AI and Crypto Czar David Sacks said that a [...]

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Outline:

(01:52) How Smugglers Evade Export Controls

(03:42) Delay-based Location Verification

(04:54) Privacy and Security

(07:40) Feasibility of Location Verification

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First published:
May 19th, 2025

Source:
https://aifrontiersmedia.substack.com/p/can-location-verification-stop-ai

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Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

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“The Misguided Quest for Mechanistic AI Interpretability” by Dan Hendrycks, Laura Hiscott

Thursday, May 15, 2025 • Duration 16:22

In March this year, Google DeepMind announced it was deprioritizing its work on mechanistic interpretability. The following month, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published an essay advocating for greater focus on “mechanistic interpretability” and expounding his optimism about achieving “MRI for AI” in the next 5-10 years. While policymakers and the public tend to assume interpretability would be a good thing, there has recently been intensified debate among experts about the value of research in this field.

‍Mechanistic interpretability aims to reverse-engineer AI systems. Mechanistic interpretability research, which has been going on for over a decade, aims to uncover the specific neurons and circuits in a model that are responsible for given tasks. In so doing, it hopes to trace the model's reasoning process and offer a “nuts-and-bolts” explanation of its behavior. This is an understandable impulse: knowledge is power; to name is to know, and to know is to [...]

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Outline:

(01:50) AI and Complex Systems

(07:01) High Investment, No Returns

(11:30) Bottom-Up vs Top-Down

(14:09) Conclusion

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First published:
May 15th, 2025

Source:
https://aifrontiersmedia.substack.com/p/the-misguided-quest-for-mechanistic

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Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

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“We’re Arguing About AI Safety Wrong” by Helen Toner

Monday, May 12, 2025 • Duration 14:00

This post was cross-published on the author's Substack, Rising Tide.

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Historically, the way we’ve dealt well with rapidly evolving uncertain processes is classical liberalism.
-Dwarkesh Patel, X

I wasn’t expecting a book from 1998 to explain the 2023-2024 AI safety wars, but Virginia Postrel's The Future and Its Enemies — which I picked up at the recommendation of libertarian AI policy wonk Adam Thierer — does a surprisingly good job.

Postrel's book helped reframe something that had been bothering me. I think there's plenty to critique about AI safety ideas and the AI safety community, but when they come under fire — as has happened a lot over the past couple of years — the critiques often miss the mark. One common theme is portraying AI safety advocates as anti-technology, which is totally out of step with the nerdy, early-adopter, industrial-revolution-enthusiast crowd I know. Another recurring criticism [...]

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Outline:

(02:54) Stasism: Finding the One Best Way

(08:13) Advanced AI as a threat to a dynamic future

(10:40) Dynamism: An open-ended future

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First published:
May 12th, 2025

Source:
https://aifrontiersmedia.substack.com/p/were-arguing-about-ai-safety-wrong

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“Can the US Prevent AGI from Being Stolen?” by Philip Tschirhart, Nick Stockton

Wednesday, April 30, 2025 • Duration 13:00

In 1943, a new town appeared in the mountains of northern New Mexico. It didn’t show up on any maps. Families arrived by train under code names. Scientists were issued ration books and cover stories. Children went to school behind fences, while their parents worked on a secret project that would change the world. The town was Los Alamos. It was the home of the Manhattan Project.

Built almost overnight, Los Alamos became the center of America's effort to develop a technology with unprecedented power: the atomic bomb. Its existence demanded total secrecy, centralized control, and infrastructure that had never existed before. Protecting the work happening inside required surveillance. Working groups were separated. Scientists and their families lived in government-run housing. All communication with the outside world was tightly monitored.

Today, calls for a “Manhattan Project for AI” echo from Washington, D.C., to Silicon Valley. The comparison isn’t just [...]

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Outline:

(02:21) A Level of Security Never Seen Before

(04:37) How It's Built

(06:35) Who Builds It

(10:18) How It's Deployed

(11:28) The Fork in the Road

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First published:
April 30th, 2025

Source:
https://aifrontiersmedia.substack.com/p/can-the-us-prevent-agi-from-being

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Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

“AI Companies Want to Give You a New Job. Your New Team? A Million AIs.” by Vanessa Bates Ramirez

Thursday, April 24, 2025 • Duration 09:05

If AI agents can do your job better and faster, what's left for you to do?

AI agents are already taking over a range of human tasks. Specialized AI agents are at work right now in customer service, drug discovery, and software development, increasing productivity and speed-to-market by 50% or more, according to one study.

This may be just the beginning of a drastic overhaul of the nature of work itself. In a not-too-distant future, we may not be doing work at all— at least not the work we’re used to. Instead, we’ll be overseeing AI agents performing familiar tasks for us.

In a recent interview with podcast host Dwarkesh Patel, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella laid out such a future — one in which each person effectively manages millions of AI agents.

“I feel there's a new inbox that's going to get created, which is my millions of agents [...]

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Outline:

(02:09) Doing 100 Jobs

(03:51) Is More Work Good Work?

(06:20) How Soon?

(08:06) The Agent Boss

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First published:
April 24th, 2025

Source:
https://aifrontiersmedia.substack.com/p/ai-companies-want-to-give-you-a-new

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“America First Meets Safety First” by Miles Brundage, Grace Werner

Wednesday, April 23, 2025 • Duration 16:32

The United States and China are in a fierce competition to develop and deploy more capable AI systems, as well as to control the AI supply chain. Each side is driven by logical geopolitical and economic objectives. However, unchecked escalation from either carries serious risks that could undermine global security.

Although China has historically lagged in AI development, it has spent the last decade heavily investing in semiconductor supply chain autonomy and is continuing to invest across the ecosystem. Washington, meanwhile, is not taking its current lead for granted. The Trump administration is pursuing strong measures, such as the AI Action Plan, to continue leading the world in this critical technology.

But the US should not default to a posture of unmitigated confrontation that would imperil not just the US and China, but the world. Leading companies and independent experts have stated that AI systems may soon pose catastrophic [...]

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Outline:

(02:16) The Inevitability of Multipolar AI

(04:51) Common and Diverging Interests

(07:22) Avoiding an AI Cuban Missile Crisis (or Chernobyl)

(10:15) America First Meets Safety First

(13:32) A Path Forward for American Leadership

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First published:
April 23rd, 2025

Source:
https://aifrontiersmedia.substack.com/p/america-first-meets-safety-first

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Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

“AIs Are Disseminating Expert-Level Virology Skills” by Dan Hendrycks, Laura Hiscott

Tuesday, April 22, 2025 • Duration 14:09

For years, people have cautioned we wait to do anything about AI until it starts demonstrating “dangerous capabilities.” Those capabilities may be arriving now.

Virology knowledge has been limited to a small number of experts. Expertise in dual-use fields like virology is difficult to attain, with people completing multiple degrees and dedicating their careers to reaching the forefront of research. Where knowledge is publicly available, the jargon-heavy literature is largely indecipherable to most people outside the field. To perform research involving biosafety level 3 (BSL-3) pathogens—such as SARS, anthrax, or H5N1 influenza—researchers must clear a series of approvals, including facility certification, security clearances, specialized training, and ongoing medical surveillance. Only then can they get access to these pathogens and begin acquiring the tacit skills needed to work with them

These high barriers to entry have limited the pool of people with access to powerful dual-use knowledge, keeping the chances [...]

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Outline:

(07:19) Friction as a key factor

(10:47) A ticking time bomb

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First published:
April 22nd, 2025

Source:
https://aifrontiersmedia.substack.com/p/ais-are-disseminating-expert-level

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Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

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“Smokescreen: How Bad Evidence Is Used to Prevent AI Safety” by Laura Hiscott

Friday, April 18, 2025 • Duration 13:05

Make a testable claim.

Test it through observation and experiment.

Update the claim to match reality.

The common-sense notion that we should assess claims about the world through observation appears in texts dating back to ancient civilizations. But it was the Scientific Revolution of the 16th and 17th centuries that formalized and popularized what we now call the scientific method.

We are all steeped in this paradigm. And, at first glance, it seems entirely reasonable to expect that AI policy be firmly grounded in evidence. Many proponents of this view argue there simply isn’t enough proof to justify alarm over various AI risks: from AI systems perpetuating bias and discrimination, to enabling the development of biological weapons by malicious actors. Precautionary measures, they claim, are often premature, overly restrictive, and even unscientific or unethical — likely to stifle innovation and block the benefits AI could bring to society.

Yet [...]

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Outline:

(01:29) Black Boxes and Benchmarks

(05:02) Addressing Corporate Incentives

(09:21) The Path to Better Evidence

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First published:
April 18th, 2025

Source:
https://aifrontiersmedia.substack.com/p/smokescreen-how-bad-evidence-is-used

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Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

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