All articles tagged with #policy and regulation
Anthropic warns that AI progress is accelerating toward recursive self-improvement, where frontier models could autonomously design, build, and train more capable successors, creating a feedback loop with minimal human involvement; the company urges lawmakers to engage early and develop tools to verify and align AI outputs with human intentions.
The Department of Justice pushed back the effective date of its stricter ADA digital-accessibility rules for public colleges to April 26, 2027 (April 26, 2028 for small entities), delaying deadlines for updating websites and course materials. Citing costs and coordination burdens, the interim final rule aims to ease institutions into compliance, drawing praise from some higher-ed groups but criticism from disability-rights advocates who warn that delays prolong barriers to inclusive education.
More than 150 countries signed an IPBES assessment warning that GDP-focused growth and other unsustainable economic activity are driving biodiversity loss: about 1 in 8 of the world’s roughly 8 million species are threatened and 75% of Earth’s land has been altered by humans. Markets fail to price biodiversity’s services, so the report calls for broad policy, legal, and regulatory reforms—business action alone isn’t enough—amid shifting EU rules and the US’s withdrawal from IPBES.