Legal Updates: United States - October, 2025

Oct 2, 2025

In Other News: Surveillance & Dual-Use Tech - October, 2025

Oct 2, 2025

Meta Leads the Race to the Bottom

Meta’s recent policy rollbacks and lack of transparency have led to increased harmful content and user distrust, and the company’s automation of content moderation raises concerns about safety and integrity. Several other social media platforms are nevertheless following Meta’s lead.

Oct 2, 2025

What’s Really Taking White Collar Jobs?

The recent surge in unemployment among college graduates is driven by a mix of factors, not just AI. While AI is augmenting tasks rather than replacing most jobs, companies appear to be scaling back entry-level hiring and training in anticipation of future automation, making it harder for early-career workers to enter the job market.

Oct 1, 2025

Authoritarian AI

AI is accelerating the spread and sophistication of global disinformation, with chatbots, video generators, and social media platforms being used to manipulate public opinion, disrupt elections, and amplify propaganda—often at the hands of authoritarian regimes.

Oct 1, 2025

The AI Kids Are Not Alright

AI systems accessible to children must prioritize youth safety, transparency, and privacy from the outset. Yet companies like Meta and some toy makers are already ignoring these guidelines, raising serious concerns about exploitation, inappropriate content, and unknown developmental risks for children.

Oct 1, 2025

AI is Listening, and it Can’t Keep a Secret

AI companies are increasingly harvesting vast amounts of personal data to fuel model development and personalized services, which raises serious privacy, security, and legal concerns. As generative AI faces technical limits, experts warn that firms may shift to surveillance-based business models, exploiting sensitive user data without meaningful consent or transparency.

Oct 1, 2025

A World Beyond LLMs?

A new Apple study confirms that LLMs fail at true reasoning, relying on pattern matching rather than logic. Experts warn that current evaluation methods overstate LLM capabilities, and some researchers argue that advancing AI will require moving beyond LLMs toward other approaches that better mimic human understanding.

Oct 1, 2025

Data Centers: The Canary in the AI Hype Coalmine?

AI infrastructure is now a major driver of U.S. economic growth, but it's being financed through increasingly complex and risky financial strategies that echo the subprime mortgage crisis. As tech giants and startups rack up debt to fund data centers and cloud capacity far ahead of actual demand, experts warn of mounting systemic risk, unsustainable valuations, and potential fallout for both investors and local communities.

Oct 1, 2025