The UN's AI warnings grow louder Welcome back to In the Loop, new twice-weekly newsletter about AI. It was a busy week for our team: Tharin Pillay was on site during the UN General Assembly in New York, while Harry Booth and Nikita Ostrovsky were at the "All In AI" event in Montreal. If you're reading this in your browser, why not subscribe to have the next one delivered straight to your inbox? The United Nations General Assembly met this week in New York. While the assembly members spent much of their time on the crises in Palestine and Sudan, they also devoted a good chunk to AI.

Earlier in the week, Blackburn attempted to forge a compromise with Ted Cruz, who led the provision. Together, they produced a new version that reduced the ten-year ban to a five-year one, and carved out exceptions for laws related to kids' online safety and personal publicity rights. But this version of the bill was promptly excoriated by vocal coalitions in both parties. A group of 140 mostly left-leaning advocacy organizations, including Encode AI and Common Sense Media, penned an open letter arguing that this new version actually shielded tech companies from the state regulation that Blackburn was attempting to protect. "The vague standards set out in the moratorium will provide Big Tech a clear path to challenge nearly any state law in court," the letter read.