AI Companions and the Right to Choose
Giada Pistilli’s guide makes a strong case for adult autonomy. Its protective defaults should be judged against that commitment and the dignity of risk.
We Already Ran This Experiment, and the Government Lost
A government that worries about frontier cyber capability landing in hostile hands is not being paranoid. There are genuine national security preparedness concerns. The case against Secretary Lutnick's letter is not that cyber concerns are imaginary but that the remedy is a blunder.
Anthropic Wants Your ID, Not Your Agency
Paternalism is not safety in any mature sense because its actions have the consequence of flattening legal, moral, and technical distinctions. Anthropic's paternalism asks users to give more trust to the platform while offering less trust to the user in return.
Six Questions for Minister Miller Before Canada's Online Harms Bill Drops
The Carney government is expected to table its long-awaited online safety legislation on Wednesday. Before the text exists, here are the questions that will decide whether it survives contact with the Charter, the courts, and the trade file.
The Trump Admin's Mythos Executive Order's Secret Technique: Enforcing Existing Laws
Trump's new AI executive order doesn't regulate models. It directs the DOJ to prosecute agentic misuse under existing laws like the CFAA.
The Free World Needs Open Source AI: A North American AI Compact for the USMCA Era
USMCA needs a post Mythos compact between the US and Canada.