{"id":197067,"date":"2026-03-18T13:20:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T17:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/18\/op-ed-ai-governance-rules-are-being-written-without-you\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T13:30:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T17:30:11","slug":"op-ed-ai-governance-rules-are-being-written-without-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/18\/op-ed-ai-governance-rules-are-being-written-without-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Op-ed: AI governance rules are being written without you"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/iapp.org\/news\/a\/op-ed-ai-governance-rules-are-being-written-without-you\">Op-ed: AI governance rules are being written without you<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/iapp.org\/news\/a\/op-ed-ai-governance-rules-are-being-written-without-you\">https:\/\/iapp.org\/news\/a\/op-ed-ai-governance-rules-are-being-written-without-you<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-03-18 13:20:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"iapp.org\">iapp.org<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Pentagon&#8217;s Labeling of Anthropic:<\/strong> The Pentagon labeled Anthropic as a &#8220;supply chain risk&#8221; due to a contract dispute over the restrictions placed on its AI system&#8217;s military use, demonstrating how procurement can influence governance.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>AI System Usage in Military Operations:<\/strong> The reported use of Anthropic&#8217;s AI, Claude, in military operations against Iran and Venezuela, highlights how national security can override intended operational limitations set by developers.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>U.S. Diplomatic Stance on Foreign Data Sovereignty:<\/strong> The Department of State instructed diplomats to oppose foreign \u201cdata sovereignty\u201d initiatives, aiming to frame cross-border data governance as a threat to American interests, thus influencing international data regulations.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Algorithmic Governance Dependence:<\/strong> These events highlight a structural problem where AI adoption in the Global South occurs under governance principles set by U.S. procurement contracts and diplomatic policies, without local input, leading to algorithmic governance dependence.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Implications for Procurement and Governance:<\/strong> The focus on procurement as a regulatory tool suggests it\u2019s crucial for privacy and AI governance professionals to engage with procurement decisions to ensure transparency and accountability in governance structures.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Need for Regional Coordination:<\/strong> There\u2019s a call for regional coordination to address power asymmetries in AI governance, using projects like Latam-GPT to develop AI systems that reflect local contexts.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Importance of Auditability:<\/strong> It\u2019s essential that any security exceptions made in deploying AI systems in high-stakes contexts be documented and reviewable to maintain democratic oversight.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Role of Civil Society:<\/strong> Civil society organizations must have sustainable funding and independence to monitor AI deployments and advocate for affected communities, ensuring broader participation in AI governance.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Op-ed: AI governance rules are being written without you https:\/\/iapp.org\/news\/a\/op-ed-ai-governance-rules-are-being-written-without-you Publish Date: 2026-03-18 13:20:00 Source&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":197068,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/images.contentstack.io\/v3\/assets\/bltd4dd5b2d705252bc\/blt2578f7212945a76b\/69b81f5dd22cf282e9612cf3\/lines-data-center-ai-030426.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197067"}],"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=197067"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197067\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":197069,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197067\/revisions\/197069"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}