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2025-01-20 Trump rescinded Executive Order 14110 Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence.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
2025-07-15 The Trump administration defunded CISA (Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency), accusing it of spreading misinformation and combating foreign disinformation. Interesting sidenote, the former director Chris Krebs was one of Trump’s direct targets when he announced the 2020 presidential election was conducted securely and without significant voter fraud.
https://www.meritalk.com/articles/trump-budget-slashes-cisa-science-funding-boosts-space-mission/
https://www.computerweekly.com/news/366625236/US-cyber-agency-CISA-faces-stiff-budget-cuts#
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
2026-07-27 Anthropic became the third AI company whose chatbot conversations with users became accessible in Google search results in 2025. In 2026 the problem continued with Claude.
https://www.pcmag.com/news/claude-chats-popped-up-in-google-search-results-see-if-yours-are-public
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cly5qgjk5ywo
https://www.axios.com/2026/07/27/anthropic-claude-public-chats-google-search
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUPXgeRVP9g&list=WL&index=1&t=69s