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"Chart: Trump is slowing climate progress. Here's how much."
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Chart: Trump is slowing climate progress. Here’s how much.
After Trump’s budget law and regulatory rollbacks, the country’s carbon emissions are set to fall much slower than they would have under the Biden admin.

AI Governance in Higher Education: A course design exploring regulatory, ethical and practical considerations
Zsolt Alm\'asi (P\'azm\'any P\'eter Catholic University, Hungary), Hannah Bleher (University of Bonn, Germany), Johannes Bleher (University of Hohenheim, Germany), Rozanne Tuesday Flores (Bukidnon State University, Philippines), Guo Xuanyang (Southwest University of Political Science and Law, China), Pawe{\l} Pujszo (College of Europe, Natolin, Poland), Rapha\&q…

AI Governance in Higher Education: A course design exploring regulatory, ethical and practical considerations
As artificial intelligence (AI) systems permeate critical sectors, the need for professionals who can address ethical, legal and governance challenges has become urgent. Current AI ethics education remains fragmented, often siloed by discipline and disconnected from practice. This paper synthesizes literature and regulatory developments to propose a modular, interdisciplinary curriculum that integrates technical foundations with ethics, law and policy. We highlight recurring operational failure…

Inteligencia Artificial jur\'idica y el desaf\'io de la veracidad: an\'alisis de alucinaciones, optimizaci\'on de RAG y principios para una integraci\'on responsable
Alex Dantart
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09467

Inteligencia Artificial jurídica y el desafío de la veracidad: análisis de alucinaciones, optimización de RAG y principios para una integración responsable
This technical report analyzes the challenge of "hallucinations" (false information) in LLMs applied to law. It examines their causes, manifestations, and the effectiveness of the RAG mitigation strategy, highlighting its limitations and proposing holistic optimizations. The paper explores the ethical and regulatory implications, emphasizing human oversight as an irreplaceable role. It concludes that the solution lies not in incrementally improving generative models, but in adopting a "consulta…

"Ohio Bill Would Require Watermarks on AI Imagery"
How exactly does a state enforce this? 🤔 "...it could place restrictions on a consumer's legal uses of a product, or it could place restrictions on what type of functions a producer's product can actually produce."
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Bridging the Regulatory Divide: Ensuring Safety and Equity in Wearable Health Technologies
Akshay Kelshiker (Albert Einstein College of Medicine), Susan Cheng (Independent Researcher), Jivan Achar (Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine), Jane Bambauer (University of Florida Levin College of Law), Leo Anthony Celi (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health), Divya Jain (University of Washington Sch…

Bridging the Regulatory Divide: Ensuring Safety and Equity in Wearable Health Technologies
As wearable health technologies have grown more sophisticated, the distinction between "wellness" and "medical" devices has become increasingly blurred. While some features undergo formal U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) review, many over-the-counter tools operate in a regulatory grey zone, leveraging health-related data and outputs without clinical validation. Further complicating the issue is the widespread repurposing of wellness devices for medical uses, which can introduce safety ri…

AI for Statutory Simplification: A Comprehensive State Legal Corpus and Labor Benchmark
Emaan Hariri, Daniel E. Ho
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.19365 https://

AI for Statutory Simplification: A Comprehensive State Legal Corpus and Labor Benchmark
One of the emerging use cases of AI in law is for code simplification: streamlining, distilling, and simplifying complex statutory or regulatory language. One U.S. state has claimed to eliminate one third of its state code using AI. Yet we lack systematic evaluations of the accuracy, reliability, and risks of such approaches. We introduce LaborBench, a question-and-answer benchmark dataset designed to evaluate AI capabilities in this domain. We leverage a unique data source to create LaborBench…

A Century of Evolution in the Complexity of the United States Legal Code
Dawoon Jeong, James Holehouse, Jisung Yoon, Chris Kempes, Geoffrey B West, Hyejin Youn
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.14342

A Century of Evolution in the Complexity of the United States Legal Code
As societies confront increasingly complex regulatory demands in domains such as digital governance, climate policy, and public health, there is a pressing need to understand how legal systems evolve, where they concentrate regulatory attention, and how their institutional architectures shape capacity for adaptation. Yet, the long-term structural dynamics of law remain empirically underexplored. Here, we provide a versioned, machine-readable record of the United States Code (U.S. Code), the pri…