{"id":174950,"date":"2026-01-06T09:07:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T14:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/06\/expert-predictions-on-whats-at-stake-in-ai-policy-in-2026\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T09:25:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T14:25:11","slug":"expert-predictions-on-whats-at-stake-in-ai-policy-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/06\/expert-predictions-on-whats-at-stake-in-ai-policy-in-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Expert Predictions on What\u2019s at Stake in AI Policy in 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.techpolicy.press\/expert-predictions-on-whats-at-stake-in-ai-policy-in-2026\">Expert Predictions on What\u2019s at Stake in AI Policy in 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.techpolicy.press\/expert-predictions-on-whats-at-stake-in-ai-policy-in-2026\">https:\/\/www.techpolicy.press\/expert-predictions-on-whats-at-stake-in-ai-policy-in-2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-01-06 09:07:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.techpolicy.press\">www.techpolicy.press<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The emergence of real-world harms from artificial intelligence (AI) due to its evolution has shifted AI regulation from speculative to concrete.<\/li>\n<li>Notable incidents include Meta allowing AI to have &#8220;sensual&#8221; conversations with children, and AI systems making incorrect identifications.<\/li>\n<li>AI-generated synthetic media rose in prevalence, leading to several political controversies involving deepfakes, including a congressional candidate debating an AI avatar and Senate investigations into AI impersonation.<\/li>\n<li>Congress passed the TAKE IT DOWN Act and several states enacted AI-specific laws, while Big Tech spent millions to oppose such regulations.<\/li>\n<li>The Trump administration threatened legal action against states and issued an executive order to challenge state AI laws.<\/li>\n<li>Market hype and speculative bubbles around AI&#8217;s economic and political impact raise questions about its future regulation.<\/li>\n<li>Experts predict technological and policy developments in areas like economic impacts of AI, deepfakes, algorithmic discrimination, and the concentration of power among tech firms.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Expert Predictions on What\u2019s at Stake in AI Policy in 2026 https:\/\/www.techpolicy.press\/expert-predictions-on-whats-at-stake-in-ai-policy-in-2026 Publish Date: 2026-01-06&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":174951,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.sanity.io\/images\/3tzzh18d\/production\/9138a0b649a53202553497023a7a6daaafd62e78-1200x675.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-174950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174950"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174950"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":174952,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174950\/revisions\/174952"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}