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Who Benefits From Slowing Down AI? Sanders, the Frontier Labs and the UN in One Week
A bill to ban superintelligence, two frontier model launches on the same day, and a UN that wants a brake it cannot build. An open-source reading of who pays first,…
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The Doom Dividend
Last week, a frontier-AI researcher walked away from Anthropic and detonated a familiar sentence into a very different political environment: the people building advanced AI believe it could kill us.…
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The Kill-Switch Test
The button says stop. Excellent. What stopped? This week’s Mercury Brief follows the AI incidents behind the kill-switch debate—and asks whether the tasks, credentials and consequences stop with the chat.…
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MCP Enforces at the Boundary. It Cannot Vouch for Itself.
which governance functions can the protocol actually hold, and at exactly what point do you stop trusting it?
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The Accountability Control Plane Field Paper
Trustworthy AI cannot be reduced to model behavior. It depends on trustworthy systems of oversight around AI.
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The Accountability Gap Field Brief
AI governance is no longer just about accuracy. It’s about whether anyone stays accountable when AI shapes decisions — the accountability gap, and how to close it.
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Classify Against the 19 May Draft Guidelines Now — Before They Are Final and Before You Are Rushed
The Commission’s draft high-risk guidelines are the clearest answer yet to “is my system high-risk?” The consultation closes 23 June. Here is how to run the test this week.
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The Explanation Gap Between GDPR Article 22 and AI Act Article 86
GDPR Articles 13, 14, 15, and 22, together with AI Act Article 86, give affected people different routes to understand and contest automated or AI-assisted decisions — but they cover…
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The Clause That Almost Vanished
The public record does not prove who wrote the Digital Omnibus. It shows something more useful: who had access, whose asks aligned with the draft, and which public-visibility safeguard nearly…