Wolf Ha

It's the 2nd of August, the day all the big AI companies had marked in their calendar (or so I hope).

From today onwards all new General Purpose AI models (GPAI) released in the EU need to fulfil certain new obligations under the EU AI Act:

That includes transparency on training data, energy consumption, incident reporting and more.

#AIRegulation #AI

medium.com/misaligned/the-eu-a

The EU AI Act Reaches Another Milestone. Where Things Stand. | misaligned

August is almost upon us and it has been almost a year…

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Wolf Ha

The Trump administration has published its "AI Action plan", and instead of tackling bias and misinformation in AI, it literally plans to remove all references to it in current regulatory frameworks.

#AI #AIRegulation

Source: whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uplo

Tsaaro Consulting

🤖💬 Your AI assistant might be listening… even when you didn’t ask it to.

From accidental Siri activations to leaked Meta chat logs, AI chatbots are quietly reshaping how private our “private” conversations really are.

📉 Consent is unclear. Data is stored indefinitely. Children’s voices? Profiled.
🔍 Legal and ethical boundaries are being crossed—often silently.

👁‍🗨 It’s time to rethink what we allow AI to record. Because convenience shouldn’t come at the cost of trust.

🧠 Dive into the risks, laws, and ethical solutions in our new blog:
👉tsaaro.com/blogs/beyond-conven

#AIPrivacy #ChatbotEthics #DPDPA #GDPR #AIRegulation #DigitalRights #Infosec #PrivacyByDesign #AIChatbot #VoiceAssistantRisks

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Wolf Ha

ICYMI, only weeks away from the next phase of the EU AI Act coming into force (the AI Act rules on general-purpose AI apply from 2 August), the EU last week published its "General-Purpose AI (GPAI) Code of Practice".

The code is organised in three chapters: Transparency, Copyright, and Safety and Security. #AI #AiRegulation

digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/

The General-Purpose AI Code of Practice

The Code of Practice helps industry comply with the…

Shaping Europe’s digital future
Miguel Afonso Caetano

"I would suggest that we do not forget that OpenAI, Meta, Google, and some of the top VC firms in Silicon Valley were behind this bill and driving for its passage. Or that, had these companies not sent teams of lobbyists to DC and sold the idea that AI is a zero sum arms race with China, it would not have existed at all. That biggest AI companies—Anthropic excepted, to its credit, even if its opposition was performative—were directly campaigning to exempt their products and practices from the democratic process. They were actively pushing to radically de-democratize a technology they are selling us all as a great force for democratization.

As OpenAI and Meta et al quietly move on to building and selling their next generation of AI products, don’t forget what they tried to do. Which, essentially, can be boiled down to “stop California from passing laws to regulate AI that might take a little time and money to comply with.”"

bloodinthemachine.com/p/dont-f

#USA #Trump #BigTech #SiliconValley #Politics #AI #GenerativeAI #AIRegulation #AIPolicy #Democracy

Don't forget what Silicon Valley tried to do

The 10-year ban on state AI laws may be dead, but let's…

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Wulfy

The educator panic over AI is real, and rational.
I've been there myself. The difference is I moved past denial to a more pragmatic question: since AI regulation seems unlikely (with both camps refusing to engage), how do we actually work with these systems?

The "AI will kill critical thinking" crowd has a point, but they're missing context.
Critical reasoning wasn't exactly thriving before AI arrived: just look around. The real question isn't whether AI threatens thinking skills, but whether we can leverage it the same way we leverage other cognitive tools.

We don't hunt our own food or walk everywhere anymore.
We use supermarkets and cars. Most of us Google instead of visiting libraries. Each tool trade-off changed how we think and what skills matter. AI is the next step in this progression, if we're smart about it.

The key is learning to think with AI rather than being replaced by it.
That means understanding both its capabilities and our irreplaceable human advantages.

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Wulfy

AI isn't going anywhere. Time to get strategic:
Instead of mourning lost critical thinking skills, let's build on them through cognitive delegation—using AI as a thinking partner, not a replacement.

This isn't some Silicon Valley fantasy:
Three decades of cognitive research already mapped out how this works:

Cognitive Load Theory:
Our brains can only juggle so much at once. Let AI handle the grunt work while you focus on making meaningful connections.

Distributed Cognition:
Naval crews don't navigate with individual genius—they spread thinking across people, instruments, and procedures. AI becomes another crew member in your cognitive system.

Zone of Proximal Development
We learn best with expert guidance bridging what we can't quite do alone. AI can serve as that "more knowledgeable other" (though it's still early days).
The table below shows what this looks like in practice:

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Wulfy

Critical reasoning vs Cognitive Delegation

Old School Focus:

Building internal cognitive capabilities and managing cognitive load independently.

Cognitive Delegation Focus:

Orchestrating distributed cognitive systems while maintaining quality control over AI-augmented processes.

We can still go for a jog or go hunt our own deer, but for reaching the stars we, the Apes do what Apes do best: Use tools to build on our cognitive abilities. AI is a tool.

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Miguel Afonso Caetano

One of the last true Libertarians. I'm sure I will totally agree with him during half of the text and absolutely disagree with him in the other half.

"In Defending Technological Dynamism & the Freedom to Innovate in the Age of AI, Adam Thierer argues that human flourishing, economic growth, and geopolitical resilience requires innovation—especially in artificial intelligence. Overzealous regulation threatens to undermine this progress. If policymakers adopt a governance philosophy of permissionless innovation over the precautionary principle, however, they can foster an environment that tolerates and protects creativity, experimentation, and risk-taking."

civitasinstitute.org/research/

#AI #GenerativeAI #AIRegulation #PermissionlessInnovation #Geopolitics #USA #China

Defending Technological Dynamism & the Freedom to Innovate in the Age of AI | Adam Thierer

Human flourishing, economic growth, and geopolitical…

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Brian Greenberg :verified:

🚨 Reddit is suing AI startup Anthropic

The claim? Anthropic scraped Reddit’s site more than 100,000 times to train its Claude AI — without permission, payment, or a license.

🧠 Used Reddit’s data to train AI
📉 Bypassed bot blocks
📜 Violated content policy
💵 Unlike OpenAI & Google, no data deal

This lawsuit could define the future of content licensing in the AI era.

🔍 Will companies need explicit licenses to train on public web data?
🔐 And how do we balance innovation with consent and compensation?

#AIethics #DataRights #Reddit #Anthropic #AIregulation
wsj.com/tech/ai/reddit-lawsuit