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The Mythos Moment and the Reordering of AI Governance

Export controls, secret benchmarks, and the quiet arrival of an ad hoc licensing regime
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When Anthropic and the Pentagon Went to War
An extended report on how a fight over contract language between Anthropic and the Department of War became a test of who controls frontier AI.
 • Will Rinehart
Introducing My New AI Tracking Site: AI Policy Hub
A new home for tracking government actions, state and federal bills, economic trends, and the politics of technological change.
 • Will Rinehart
AI Has Been A Race to the Bottom, Towards Alignment
Throughout 2025, misalignment scores fell for many AI labs even as capabilities climbed.
 • Will Rinehart
The Phenomenology of Getting AGI-Pilled
Large language models are forcing questions about mind and meaning that philosophy long deferred. We need to take another look.
 • Will Rinehart
Data Centers Make Easy Targets For Rising Energy Bills, But They Are Poor Scapegoats
Virginia found data centers "are currently paying full cost of service." Policymakers should focus on rate design and regulation, not restriction.
 • Will Rinehart
What the Apollo Program Can Still Teach Us
My latest paper dives into the space race, the Apollo program, and the lessons for making government programs work.
 • Will Rinehart
The Sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald
The sinking of the Fitz closed the age when human judgment alone had to contend with Great Lakes. Now human intelligence is amplified by machines.
 • Will Rinehart
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