Lawfare Daily: Adam Thierer on the AI Regulatory Landscape

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🗓️ 1 April 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Adam Thierer, Senior Fellow for the Technology & Innovation team at R Street, joins Kevin Frazier, the AI Innovation and Law Fellow at the UT Austin School of Law and a Contributing Editor at Lawfare, to review public comments submitted in response to the Office of Science and Technology Policy’s Request for Information on the AI Action Plan. The pair summarize their own comments and explore those submitted by major labs and civil society organizations. They also dive into recent developments in the AI regulatory landscape, including a major veto by Governor Youngkin in Virginia.

Readings discussed:

Kevin on Vance’s America First, America Only Approach to AI
Keegan and Adam on AI Safety Treatises
Kevin on Proposed Firings at NIST
Dean and Alan on Preemption

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