AI, Elections, Labor, Competition, and the Planet

The societal frontiers where AI governance is being invented case by case: synthetic media and election law, algorithmic collusion and foundation-model antitrust, algorithmic management and labor policy, the environmental governance of compute, business-and-human-rights due diligence, and the military AI debate.

Content current as of 2026-09.

Lessons

1. Elections and synthetic media
2. Competition: algorithmic collusion and the foundation-model stack
3. Labor: displacement policy, algorithmic bosses, and the bargaining table
4. The planet: measuring and governing AI’s footprint
5. Human rights due diligence — and the military AI debate