AI Ethics & Policy

On July 4, 2025, President Trump signed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act into law—a budget reconciliation bill enacting several signature policies of the President’s second-term agenda. Left on the cutting-room floor, however, was an ambitious attempt to prohibit nearly all state and local regulation of artificial intelligence (“AI”) for the foreseeable future. The version […]

Every day, millions of people input prompts (whether questions or instructions) into AI tools such as ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, DALL-E, or Meta AI. Recently, media coverage highlighted what seemed to be a gap in awareness for many users of the latter: people could read the “conversations” that strangers were having with Meta’s chatbot—including both the

The proliferation of artificial intelligence (AI) tools such as large language models and chatbots has considerably changed the academic landscape. Teachers have had to adapt on the fly, straddling the line behind harnessing these tools for their own educational gain in the classroom while preventing their potential misuse. In its wake, AI’s rapid ascendence has

New York state lawmakers on June 12, 2025 passed the Responsible AI Safety and Education Act (the RAISE Act), which aims to safeguard against artificial intelligence (AI)-driven disaster scenarios by focusing on the largest AI model developers; the bill now heads to the governor’s desk for final approval. The RAISE Act is the latest legislative

Austin, Texas—The interior dome of the Texas State Capitol. Justin Hendrix/Tech Policy Press Texas Governor Greg Abbott (R) last month signed into law the Texas Responsible Artificial Intelligence Governance Act, or TRAIGA (HB 149), joining Colorado as only the second state to adopt a comprehensive AI governance law. TRAIGA brings forth a new approach to

This story is part of our summer storytelling series, which follows Hoyas’ adventures near and far. Wisdom Obinna (G’29) has long admired the United Nations’ work for the public good. The Ph.D. student in computer science hoped to work with the intergovernmental organization one day. This summer, he took one step toward that goal as

Across industries and disciplines, across corporations, government agencies, and nonprofits, and across various roles within various organizations, many of us are being encouraged to use generative AI tools—or find ourselves using them, since they are increasingly baked into various products and services. The effectiveuseof generative AI requires acertain level of AI literacy.AI ethics literacy is

Since the 2024 passage of the EU’s AI Act, top-down approaches to AI governance have been gaining popularity. Europe’s AI regulation was the first to address all AI applications in one cohesive framework, and various jurisdictions, including U.S. states as well as other countries, are currently working to emulate that approach. Even U.S. geopolitical rival