The UN AI panel's first Thematic Brief "sets a dangerous precedent at the science–policy interface," argue Jason Tucker, Virginia Dignum and Petter Ericson, by treating the OpenAI-Hugging Face incident as more of an alignment problem rather than an oversight failure.

The Association for the Advancement of AI received 29,000 paper submissions in 2026—nearly double the prior year. Nitin Verma on what that deluge means for peer review, why AI isn't yet a trustworthy substitute, and what questions scientists need to answer before outsourcing evaluation to machines.

Boston University's Morgan Weiland on why reflexively invoking the First Amendment against the Meta settlement is the wrong critique.

A new study from Flanders, Belgium found that social media users really do learn true things about current events from political content—but that the people doing most of the talking are, on average, less informed than those staying quiet. Tim Bernard on what that means for democracy.

When chatbots write legal briefs, could AI companies be held liable for "unauthorized practice of law"? Daniel Kalish examines how century-old licensing laws may (or may not) apply to artificial intelligence.

“When does attachment become dependency?” Nik R. Roeingh writes that the EU Kids Act asks providers to predict that boundary, and that in practice it is anything but clear.

A workers’ counter-summit and a public sector strike are both planned for the same day as Ireland’s invitation-only AI summit next week. Liz Carolan on the questions the contrast raises.

Meta's settlement with state attorneys general added teen time limits and design changes. But Juvaria Shahid, legal fellow at Tech Justice Law, writes that "the settlement leaves much to be desired" and is not the tech industry's "Big Tobacco" moment.

A $3.5 billion deal between Greece and Israel highlights a gap in Europe's rules on AI surveillance tech and weapons: "European human rights conditionality scrutinizes what weapons member states sell to others, but falls silent about purchases," writes Tech Policy Press fellow Petra Molnar.

United States Custom and Border Protection's warrantless device searches at the border have nearly doubled since early 2023, writes Tech Policy Press fellow Jake Laperruque, and a new 2nd Circuit ruling keeps in place "an archaic standard ill-suited for the digital age."

Brussels is cutting digital red tape while proposing new rules like the EU Kids Act. Mark Scott writes that the two competing philosophies playing out in real time are exposing a tension at the heart of Europe's digital agenda.

“Hype is eating the future, and leaving us the bones.” Sun-ha Hong of UNC-Chapel Hill says the Silicon Valley hype machine systematically “borrows credibility from the future to purchase legitimacy in the present.” The cost, he argues, is a planetary-scale drain on our alternatives.

On the Tech Policy Press podcast, editor Justin Hendrix talks with UNC Chapel Hill researchers Daniel Kreiss and Lorcan Neill about their new paper, "Militant Platform Democracy: A Framework for Democracy-Worthy Platform Policies." "Platforms have to proceed from an analysis of power," Kreiss says.

Why is Pennsylvania ground zero in the fight over AI data centers? Tech Policy Press editor Justin Hendrix asks Data & Society researchers Maia Woluchem and Ana Carolina de Assis Nunes, authors of "The AI Factory," and organizer Hannah Sassaman of People's Tech Project.

Tim Bernard examines a new Belgian study finding that exposure to political content on social media is positively associated with current affairs knowledge—but that people who know more are actually less likely to post about politics online.

Hype cannibalizes the accumulated expectations from past failures to make objects of hype appear plausible and attractive, writes Sun-ha Hong in the latest entry in The Hype Studies Series on Tech Policy Press.

African countries collect, on average, only about 16 percent of GDP in tax. Daisy Ogembo, a senior fellow at the International Centre for Tax and Development, says voluntary tax payments could go up if governments embed trust and accountability into digital public infrastructure.

When chatbots write legal briefs, could AI companies be held liable for "unauthorized practice of law"? Daniel Kalish examines how century-old licensing laws may (or may not) apply to artificial intelligence.

“When does attachment become dependency?” Nik R. Roeingh writes that the EU Kids Act asks providers to predict that boundary, and that in practice it is anything but clear.

The invitation-only gathering comes as Ireland leads negotiations over the Digital Omnibus, raising questions about whose interests are represented as the EU rewrites its digital rulebook, writes Tech Policy Press fellow Liz Carolan.