HeyJaredConsensus Drift
Consensus Drift is a newsletter about the politics and political economy of the digital stack, focusing on how government decisions are reshaping these markets over time.
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Assessing Emerging U.S. AI Kill Switch Policies (opens the original)
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This week, Senator John Kennedy introduced the AI Emergency Button Act—only for Senator Rand Paul to immediately block Kennedy’s attempt to pass it by unanimous consent.1Still, it’s becoming clear that lawma
For Over Five Years, Washington Hasn't Really Moved the Pace of AI Model Releases. (opens the original)
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We may be on the way to USG-prompted delays in frontier model releases, which made me wonder whether federal policy has — over the course of the Biden and Trump 2.0 administrations — changed the pace at which American AI models get released to the public.Three events prompted the thought:A few days ago, 1,272 employees of frontier AI companies (and counting) asked the United States government to support an international effort to develop tools that could “deliberately pace the frontier of automa
The Kill Switch and the Long Arm (opens the original)
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Presenting the European Commission’s technology sovereignty package in June, Henna Virkkunen stated that one of its aims was to ensure that “nobody has a kill switch” over Europe’s critical systems. In the same press conference, Virkkunen—the commission’s executive vice-president for tech sovereignty, security, and democracy—singled out the U.S. CLOUD Act as a reason American cloud and artificial intelligence (AI) providers would struggle to reach the new rules&#
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