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AI governance, safety and ethics

How artificial intelligence is governed: national and international rules, safety and the risks of frontier models, deepfakes, copyright, bias, liability and autonomous weapons. Prelims has asked about the AI Action Summit in Paris.

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  • Prelims 2025: the AI Action Summit held in Paris

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Export controls on frontier models

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Export controls on artificial intelligence work on scarce hardware such as advanced chips; a model whose weights have been published cannot be withdrawn, which limits what controls on models themselves can do.

What changed

  1. 3 Jul 2026New subjectalso in news

    • The United States classed the most advanced models of one company as dual use cyber tools and restricted foreign access, and a Chinese firm released a rival open weight model within a day. Controls work on scarce hardware, but published model weights cannot be withdrawn.

    The Hindu, 3 Jul 2026: Can caged frontier AI models outrun open ones? (opens in a new tab)