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TOPSHOT - A participant holds a placard during a "emergency protest" by civic action group PauseAI UK outside Downing Street in central London on September 16, 2026, after news that AI researcher Jacob Coxon has decided to leave the industry. The world's biggest AI companies are working on creating a standards body, ChatGPT-maker OpenAI said on Sept. 15, as fears rise about the dangers of AI and pressure is on to create a safer version of the technology.

Artificial Intelligence Is the AI existential threat real—and can regulatory action prevent it?

Aaron Klein, Cameron F. Kerry, Raj Korpan, Mark MacCarthy, Elena Patel, Sanjay Patnaik, Stephanie K. Pell, Landry Signé, Anisha Singhal, Josie Stewart, Elham Tabassi, Brooke Tanner, Nicol Turner Lee, John Villasenor, Darrell M. West, Tom Wheeler, Valerie Wirtschafter, Andrew W. Wyckoff, Niam Yaraghi +14 more

September 23, 2026

An AI symbol is seen during day two of the "ALL IN 2026" conference at the Palais des Congres de Montreal in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, on September 17, 2026. "All In" is Canada's largest artificial intelligence and technology event. (Photo by ANDREJ IVANOV / AFP via Getty Images)

Artificial Intelligence Weighing the existential risks of AI and the proposals to prevent them | The TechTank Podcast

Darrell M. West, Tom Wheeler, William A. Galston

September 22, 2026

LEUK, SWITZERLAND - JULY 2: Satellite dishes belonging to local communications provider Leuk Teleport and Data Centre AG stand on a mountainside in Wallis canton on July 2, 2025, near Leuk, Switzerland. SpaceX, owned by Elon Musk, is reportedly seeking to build 40 satellite dishes for the Starlink satellite network at the site, with construction to possibly begin in September.

Geopolitics A UN satellite proposal tests limits of technological sovereignty

Lauren Tokos

September 21, 2026

CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS - APRIL 17: People are reflected in the doors of the Harry Elkins Widener Memorial Library at Harvard University on April 17, 2025 in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Higher Education How universities are affected by AI moving knowledge outside their walls

Michael J. Ahn

September 18, 2026

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