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  • Who Benefits When Everyone Says “Slow Down”?
    Mercury Brief

    Who Benefits When Everyone Says “Slow Down”?

    Sanders wants a ban, the labs want an optional pace, the UN wants a brake it can’t build. Who benefits from each ‘slow’, and who isn’t asked?

    October 14, 2026
  • Who Gets to Decide? Why AI Governance Is a Power Question
    Field Papers

    Who Gets to Decide? Why AI Governance Is a Power Question

    Every AI system that acts in the world does so because someone decided it could. FairByDesign’s launch essay on why governance is a question of power, and why the people…

    October 10, 2026
  • Ratified by the EU, Rewritten in Colorado: AI Governance Diverges
    Mercury Brief

    Ratified by the EU, Rewritten in Colorado: AI Governance Diverges

    In a single week of May 2026, the EU ratified the first binding international AI treaty while Colorado repealed and replaced America’s broadest state AI law with a narrower automated-decision…

    May 25, 2026

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