Arvind Narayanan It's great news that insurers are starting to offer AI-specific coverage. I believe we need AI regulation/governance, but if that regulation can come from the private sector (e.g. insurers) as a tool to manage risk, rather than govt., then all the better!

It seems like many SaaS startups are selling "trusted" AI labor without any real guarantees. This seems unlikely to last. All Waymo rides come insured against rider harms. Scaled AI labor will inevitably do the same. Kimi found a reddit post explaining how Waymo insurance

I can imagine how fire prevention would’ve seemed impossible to solve with market solutions in the first large waves of urbanization. Finding situations where markets can help price the risk of catastrophe, or even just small incidents, and incentivize its mitigation seems great.

Rune Kvist Rajiv Dattani Brandon Wang Love a lot of this, great foundations! I’d add one to your list of 25 though. Re/insurers don’t currently have a clear view of the AI-related risks in their portfolios. Work needs to be done to understand how AI is already embedded in their portfolios and how that’s increasing at

Insurance is underrated in general, so this looks interesting:

went under the radar but here’s yet another AGI manifesto that’s really worth reading

To accelerate AI adoption, we need an AI standard. What Moody’s is for bonds, FICO for credit, SOC 2 for security. Standards offer credible signals of who to trust. They create confidence. Confidence accelerates adoption. Introducing AIUC-1: the world’s first AI agent standard

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San Francisco's 1906 earthquake destroyed 80% of the city & had a monumental impact on the world of insurance globally. 98% of the losses were attributed to fires rather than the earthquake, and many of those fires were set by building owners after the earthquake, because, like

In a new report, we evaluate whether GPT-5 poses significant catastrophic risks via AI R&D acceleration, rogue replication, or sabotage of AI labs. We conclude that this seems unlikely. However, capability trends continue rapidly, and models display increasing eval awareness.

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it is rare that a state law introduces a genuinely novel legal mechanism, but the latest version of California's frontier AI safety bill, SB 53, does just that. the screen cap below outlines a mechanism whereby the state government can designate a federal law, regulation, or

Congratulations Dan, Omer and the whole team. Leading important work in AI security - excited for what’s next