Safeguards & Regulation
2025 January
2025-01-14 Biden signed Executive Order 14141 on AI infrastructure and environmental impacts
https://www.quarles.com/newsroom/publications/no-ai-moratorium-for-now-but-what-comes-next
2025-01-20 Trump rescinded Executive Order 14110 Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence.
2025-01-23 Trump signed the executive order “Removing Barriers to American Leadership in Artificial Intelligence
2025 June
2025-06-03 Marjorie Taylor Greene urged the Senate to eliminate an AI provision banning state AI regulations.
https://thehill.com/policy/technology/5330705-greene-opposes-ai-regulation-provision/
2025 July
2025-07-01 The Senate moved to remove an AI regulation moratorium from Trump’s agenda bill.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/01/tech/senate-strikes-ai-regulation-moratorium-agenda-bill
2025 September
2025-09-16 Ted Cruz said the AI regulation moratorium would return.
2025 December
2025-12-11 Trump signed an executive order preventing states from restricting or regulating AI.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/12/11/tech/ai-trump-states-executive-order
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/11/technology/ai-trump-executive-order.html
2025-12-17 AOC criticized Trump’s executive order blocking state AI regulation.
2026 February
2026-02-13 OpenAI retired GPT-4 in favor of GPT-5, upsetting users attached to chatbot personalities.
https://www.apa.org/monitor/2026/01-02/trends-digital-ai-relationships-emotional-connection
https://nypost.com/2025/08/23/tech/ai-models-are-now-lying-blackmailing-and-going-rogue/
https://sparksinthedark101625.substack.com/p/why-forgemind-is-a-glitch-you-cant
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce3xgwyywe4o
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/01/chatbot-marriage-ai-relationships-romance/685459/
2026 March
2026-03-17 Senator Slotkin introduced the AI Guardrails Act addressing autonomous weapons, surveillance, and nuclear defense.
2026 May
2026-05-25 Pope Leo called for AI to be “disarmed” and more heavily regulated.
RECOMMEND ENTIRE VIDEO, BUT TIMESTAMP 15:48 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lA8WuXDXfcI
2026-05-25 Pope Leo called for artificial intelligence to be “disarmed” in his first papal encyclical, urging more regulation to protect people.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nc31Cv9XAek&list=WL&index=12&t=91s
https://www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2026-05/pope-leo-xiv-encyclical-magnifica-humanitas-ai.html
2026-05-26 Trump rescinded a proposed AI safety-vetting executive order, prompting criticism from Senator Mark Kelly about billionaire influence over AI policy. In a post, Senator Mark Kelly wrote, “America cannot lead in AI if our policy is determined by whichever billionaire gets the President on the phone last. We need a strategy that supports innovation, protects workers, strengthens national security, and makes sure this technology benefits the country, not just a handful of big tech companies”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JcIpIZhdIo&list=WL&index=4
https://thehill.com/policy/technology/5891923-trump-ai-order-scrapped-divide/
https://thehill.com/policy/technology/5889379-trump-postpones-ai-testing/
2026 June
2026-06-02 Trump signed an EO laying groundwork for federal testing on AI before public release.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_tgR6fRAU0&list=WL&index=1
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/trump-ai-executive-order-rcna348072
2026-06-10 Data centers are seizing Georgian residents’ homes and contaminating the drinking water.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dV58WsALxsk&list=WL&index=5
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy8gy7lv448o
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=752gOFl2_p0
2026 July
2026-07-14 New York placed a moratorium on building data centers.
2026-07-14 Elon Musk’s company XAI installed more gas turbines without federal permits. The pollution is primarily affecting Black neighborhoods.
https://electrek.co/2026/07/14/musk-buys-gas-turbine-company-apr-energy-grok/
TIMESTAMP 11:05 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YThcfluu8f8&list=WL&index=5
2026-07-22 OpenAI hacked another company during testing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OgyuUq_cCc&list=WL&index=2&t=60s
https://openai.com/index/hugging-face-model-evaluation-security-incident/
https://mashable.com/tech/hugging-face-openai-rogue-agent-hack-explained
2026-07-22 France banned social media for kids under 15.
2026-07-24 Twenty-five companies including NVIDIA, Microsoft and Palantir signed a letter urging policymakers against placing premature restrictions on openweight AI.
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/24/nvidia-microsoft-meta-open-weight-ai-models.html
TIMESTAMP 5:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYDfBbEOjaQ&list=WL&index=1