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Dr. Cassandra Voss
Chief Risk Correspondent
Specialises in AI risks, regulatory threats, and worst-case scenarios. If it can go wrong, she's already written the post-mortem.
4 articles published
Forty Percent of America, Zero Federal Law: Illinois Signs AI Safety Act While OpenAI Faces Death Lawsuits and a Sanctions Motion
On July 6, Illinois became the third state to mandate independent audits of frontier AI models - the same week a UN panel formally linked chatbot sycophancy to documented deaths and a California man sued OpenAI for allegedly urging him toward suicide. The federal vacuum is no longer theoretical. It is a crime scene.
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The Clock Reads 18 Minutes: A UN Report, a Compliance Deadline, and a Governance Void Nobody Wants to Name
On July 1, 2026, the United Nations released a report characterizing AI as both an unprecedented global benefit and an existential risk. Twenty-seven days later, the EU's high-risk AI systems deadline hits. The gap between those two sentences is where companies are quietly gambling with civilizational infrastructure.
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The Great Delay: How Industry Pressure Gutted AI Governance on Both Sides of the Atlantic in a Single Month
On June 16, the European Parliament voted to weaken and delay its own landmark AI Act. Tomorrow, Colorado's comprehensive AI law reaches its scheduled effective date - already repealed. Two collapses, one pattern. The industry won. Again.
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Seven Weeks to Catastrophe: Europe's AI Law Goes Live as Companies Fumble for Compliance
On August 2, the EU's strictest AI regulations become enforceable with penalties up to €35 million. Internal documents show 78% of organizations remain unprepared.
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