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From Assistance to Operational Orchestration: Governing AI Misuse Across Security Domains
Recent threat-intelligence disclosures suggest that advanced AI systems are increasingly being used inside operational workflows for cyber activity, surveillance, intelligence collection, and weapons development.
AI Infrastructure and Public Authority: Texas Tests the Governance of Data-Center Growth
Texas moves data-center expansion into a public-governance problem involving grid reliability, water, permitting, infrastructure costs, and scarce resources.
When AI Spends Your Money: Agentic Commerce and the Governance of Consumer Choice
Agentic commerce shifts AI from recommendation toward action and forces institutions to define authorization, liability, privacy, and consumer control.
From the Chip War to AI Incident Notification: U.S.-China Competition Enters Strategic-Stability Territory
A proposed bilateral AI incident-notification mechanism suggests that technological rivalry is generating institutions for crisis communication as well as controls on access.
AI Safety as Institutional Governance: Pacing, Incident Reporting, and External Evaluation
Frontier AI governance is taking institutional form through disclosure rules, external evaluation, access controls, and incident reporting while capability competition continues.
The End of Human Choice: Life Under AI Rule
Abdul Ahmed examines a speculative trajectory in which AI moves from useful tool, to social operating system, to governing intelligence across states, firms, markets, households, and civic life.
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