Inside AI Policy

3 days ago | insideaipolicy.com | Charlie Mitchell

President Trump has dismissed Copyright Director Shira Perlmutter while at the same time the agency released the final portion of three-part guidance on artificial intelligence addressing the key issue of generative AI training. “On Saturday afternoon, May 10, 2025, the White House sent an email to Shira Perlmutter saying ‘your position as the Register of Copyrights and Director at the U.S. Copyright Office is terminated effective immediately,’” the office said in a statement.

3 days ago | insideaipolicy.com | Charlie Mitchell

Developers of frontier artificial intelligence models were most concerned about infrastructure issues in their comments on the upcoming White House AI action, while standards and regulations topped the list for industry groups, according to an AI-powered analysis by the Institute for Progress. “Progress in emerging technology happens fast, but policy moves very slowly.

3 days ago | insideaipolicy.com | Mariam Baksh

A bipartisan group of senators has introduced the Traveler Privacy Protection Act, legislation that once again seeks to curb the Transportation Security Administration’s growing use of facial recognition technology. “Folks don’t want a national surveillance state, but that’s exactly what the TSA’s unchecked expansion of facial recognition technology is leading us to,” Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-OR) said in a May 8 press release.

3 days ago | insideaipolicy.com | Charlie Mitchell

Federal Reserve Board Governor Michael Barr in a recent speech discussed “two scenarios” for how generative artificial intelligence will affect “workers and the labor market,” including the possibility of a complete transformation of the economy that requires dramatic reassessments of monetary policy.

6 days ago | insideaipolicy.com | Charlie Mitchell

A policy roadmap from the influential trade group USTelecom describes three priorities for integrating broadband into U.S. efforts to establish global leadership on artificial intelligence, with an emphasis on clearing barriers to building the necessary infrastructure to support AI development and crafting voluntary standards through a collaborative process.