A New Treaty of Amity, Friendship, and Trade Between the U.S. and Iran?: US reads terms of memorandum of understanding to reporters

 

ABC News has provided a transcript of the White House Readout of the terms of the Memorandum of Agreement between the U.S. and Iran, and agreement that appears to have been signed electronically by the President and Vice President Vance (which is itself noteworthy for the Republic's high level politics of succession); Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf signed the document for the Iranian side:  

US reads terms of memorandum of understanding to reporters

A senior Trump administration official has read a transcript of the memorandum of understanding that the U.S. signed with Iran to reporters. Officials have not released the text or the agreement. It was read as follows:

Islamabad Memorandum of Understanding between the United States of America and the Islamic Republic of Iran. The United States of America and the Islamic Republic of Iran has jointly agreed in good faith on such and such a date on the following

1. The United States of America and the Islamic Republic of Iran and their allies in the current war, by signing this MOU declare the immediate and permanent termination of military operations on all fronts, including in Lebanon, and undertake from now on not to initiate any war or any military operation against each other, and to refrain from the threat or use of force against each other, and ensuring the territorial integrity and sovereignty of Lebanon. The final deal will confirm the permanent termination of the war on all fronts, including in Lebanon and other provisions of this paragraph.

2. The United States of America and the Islamic Republic of Iran undertake to respect each other's sovereignty and territorial integrity and to refrain from interfering in each other's internal affairs.

3. The United States of America and the Islamic Republic of Iran commit to negotiating and achieving the final deal in maximum 60 days extendable with mutual consent.

4. Immediately upon the signing of this MOU, the United States of America will begin the removal of its naval blockade and any disturbances or impediments against the Islamic Republic of Iran, and will fully end the naval blockade within 30 days. During this period, the traffic of vessels will be in proportion to the numbers of pre-war traffic being restored by the Islamic Republic of Iran. The United States of America further undertakes to remove its forces from the proximity of the Islamic Republic of Iran within 30 days after the final deal,

5. Upon the signing of this MOU, the Islamic Republic of Iran will make arrangements using its best efforts for the safe passage of commercial vessels with no charge for 60 days only from the Persian Gulf to the Sea of Oman and vice versa. The traffic of commercial vessels will immediately start, and considering the need for removing the technical and military obstacles and demining by the Islamic Republic of Iran will be instated within 30 days. The Islamic Republic of Iran will conduct dialog with the Sultanate of Oman to define the future administration and maritime services in the Strait of Hormuz in discussion with other Persian Gulf with Oil states in line with the applicable international law and the sovereign rights of coastal states of the Strait of Hormuz

6. The United States of America undertakes with regional partners to develop a definitive, mutually agreed plan with at least USD 300 billion for the reconstruction and economic development of the Islamic Republic of Iran. The mechanism for the implementation of this plan will be finalized as part of a final deal within 60 days. All required licenses, waivers, and permissions needed for the relevant financial transactions will be granted by the United States of America.

7. The United States of America undertakes to terminate all types of sanctions against the Islamic Republic of Iran, including the United Nations Security Council resolutions, i.e. IAEA Board of Governors resolutions, and all unilateral US sanctions, primary and secondary, in an agreed upon schedule as part of the final deal. The Islamic Republic of Iran and the United States of America acknowledge the critical importance of the sanctions termination issue above mentioned, and expressed their intentions to immediately address these issues in the negotiations in order to achieve mutual agreement on them.

8. The Islamic Republic of Iran reaffirms that it shall not procure or develop nuclear weapons. The United States of America and the Islamic Republic of Iran have agreed to resolve the disposition of stockpile enriched material pursuant to a mechanism that will be mutually agreed upon in accordance with the schedule mentioned in paragraph seven with the minimum methodology to be down blending on site under the supervision of the IAEA. The two parties also agreed to discuss the issue of enrichment and other mutually agreed matters related to the Islamic Republic of Iran's nuclear needs, based on a satisfactory framework being agreed upon in the final deal. The final deal will confirm the provisions of this paragraph. The United States of America and the Islamic Republic of Iran acknowledge the critical importance of the nuclear issues above mentioned, and express their intention to immediately address these issues in the negotiations in order to achieve mutual agreement on them.

9. Pending the final deal, the United States of America and the Islamic Republic of Iran agree to maintain the status quo. The Islamic Republic of Iran will maintain the current status quo of its nuclear program, and the United States of America will not impose any new sanctions, and will not deploy additional forces in the region.

10. The United States of America undertakes that immediately upon the signing of this MOU, and until the termination of sanctions, the US Department of Treasury will issue waivers for the export of Iranian crude oil, petroleum products, and derivatives, and all associated services, including banking transactions, insurances, transportation, etc.

11. The United States of America undertakes to make fully available for use the frozen or restricted funds and assets of the Islamic Republic of Iran upon the implementation of this MOU. The United States of America and the Islamic Republic of Iran will mutually agree on the procedures related to the release of these funds during the negotiations. Such funds, whether retained in the original account or transferred, shall be made fully usable for payment to any ultimate beneficiary designated by the Central Bank of the Islamic Republic of Iran. The United States of America undertakes to issue all necessary licenses and authorizations accordingly.

12. The United States of America and the Islamic Republic of Iran agree that an executive mechanism will be established to monitor the successful implementation of this MOU and the future compliance of the final deal.

13. After signing this MOU and subject to the beginning of the implementation of paragraphs 1,4,5,10, and 11 of this MOU and the continuing implementation of these measures, the United States of America and the Islamic Republic of Iran will start negotiations regarding the final deal exclusively on the other paragraphs.

14. The final deal will be endorsed by a binding UNSC resolution, and then there's the signature page,

The most valuable part of this transaction is its clarity. Its consequences will take a little longer to sort out; and its payouts to those elements of the ruling elements of the power vanguard and their institutional projections will take a little longer still. The markets and press are happy, and those within our political hospice system have been made more comfortable on their journeys forward. Beyond that one can only wonder when the Norma Desmond of this theater piece will declaim: "All right, Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up."

 

 

Lecture 4—The "Rights State"; The E.U. Approach --for the Lecture Series: AI Governance in Comparative Perspective, Theory and Practice: China, U.S. and E.U.

 

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I was delighted to have had the opportunity to present a series of Lectures hosted by the East China University of Political Science and Law (ECUPL) at the end of May 2026.

The overall theme (and thus the title) of the lectures was AI Governance in Comparative Perspective, Theory and Practice: China, U.S. and E.U, With a Sideways Glance at the U.N. The subject of the lectures requires little by way of introduction: Artificial intelligence is the broad term that has come to represent a growing cluster of non-human and digitalized processes and operations that has as its primary task the constitution of non-human systems capable of performing tasks that were once thought to require human intelligence. And so is the impulse to manage, control, exploit, embed, understand, and regulate these processes, systems, and perhaps eventually non-human consciousness with a huge potential to undertake many of the computational tasks (the mathematical and logical processing of data) that were once the sole domain of and perhaps defined what it meant to be human. That is the point where things get interesting. It is at the point where the development of machines, that is of non-human systems, capable of performing tasks that were once thought to require human intelligence, collide with regulatory structures meant to manage, contain, constrain, liberate, embed, project and exploit such non-human systems, whether they are traditional or emerging, public or private regulatory systems, that human collectives and the machine-systems they have created now find themselves.

The eight lectures progress sequentially from conceptual and theoretical frameworks (lectures 1 and 2, the objects and subjects of AI regulation), through a deeper consideration of regulatory systems in three distinguishable regulatory regimes--the US, EU, and China (Lectures 3, 4.5). The last two lectures consider judicial efforts to embed AI within traditional legal orders (Lecture 6), and the way in which the object of regulation (in the form of the owners of the larger AI enterprises) understand the relationship between AI, the state, and society (Lecture 7) . Lecture 8 summarizes and draws larger themes going forward.

In a previous post introducing Lecture 1 (From Algorithms to Foundation Models: What Contemporary AI is “Made of”) I suggested that perhaps a useful way of approaching the issue of AI regulation is to start by considering the nature and characteristics of the regulatory subject--what we euphemistically refer to as "AI." It then occurred to me that it might be useful as well to see if that regulatory object had views of their own respecting their nature character and, more importantly, the relationship of regulation projects to that (self) perception of their nature and character. So I approached Google's Gemini with a series of questions which I thought, in the process of what might pass for a conversation, might help humans begin to understand how at least one AI program thinks of itself. That conversation was incorporated into Lecture 1A. In Lecture 2 we moved from the object to the subjects of regurgitation. Like its regulatory objects, regulatory subjects  are functionally differentiated and can be disaggregated. In either case the connection between object and subject becomes complicated. 

This post includes a summary of the Lecture 4 Notes, as well as the link to the Lecture 4 PPT. Those interested may reach out to me to discuss availability of audio of the lecture and the full text of the Lecture 4 notes

Given the nature of the project I thought it might be useful to engage with an commercially available AI service for the production of a summary of the Lecture 1 materials. After some back and forth with Grok (Lecture 3 used Anthropic's Claude; Lecture 2 used Chat GPT; Lecture 1 and 1A used Google's Gemini), we came up with the following abstract of Lecture 4. 

 

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 Abstract: The European Union’s Risk-Based Supervisory Governance of Artificial Intelligence

The European Union has constructed a comprehensive regulatory architecture for artificial intelligence centered on the Artificial Intelligence Act (AI Act), a risk-based instrument that classifies systems according to their potential effects on health, safety, fundamental rights, and the internal market. This framework integrates with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) on data privacy and automated decision-making, the Digital Markets Act (DMA) addressing gatekeeper conduct, and the Digital Services Act (DSA) concerning platform accountability. The EU model embeds AI governance within a broader regulatory imagination in which markets are constituted through law, high-impact systems receive ongoing supervision, and technological development aligns with fundamental rights.

The lecture’s central thesis holds that the EU renders AI legally legible through ex ante classification, risk assessment, and lifecycle obligations rather than primarily ex post responses to harm. This supervisory governance model contrasts with the more fragmented, market-oriented U.S. approach, which often translates harms into existing legal categories after deployment via agencies, litigation, and standards. The EU architecture identifies prohibited practices, high-risk systems, transparency obligations, and general-purpose AI requirements, allocating responsibilities among providers, deployers, importers, and distributors.

The AI Act functions as a risk pyramid. Prohibited practices—certain manipulative techniques, social scoring, and biometric applications—embody non-negotiable limits grounded in EU values. High-risk systems, used in employment, education, critical infrastructure, law enforcement, and essential services, trigger extensive lifecycle obligations: risk management, data governance, technical documentation, logging, human oversight, accuracy, robustness, cybersecurity, post-market monitoring, and incident reporting. Lower tiers impose transparency duties for chatbots or synthetic content, while minimal-risk systems face few burdens. This scaling acknowledges differential stakes but raises classification challenges for multi-purpose or context-shifting systems.

The provider-deployer distinction seeks to close accountability gaps: providers handle design and documentation; deployers manage contextual use and oversight. For general-purpose AI and foundation models, upstream obligations address technical documentation, systemic-risk mitigation, and downstream information flows, recognizing their infrastructural role beyond single use cases. Complementary provisions emphasize AI literacy for personnel and staged implementation from February 2025 to August 2027.

The EU approach fuses product-safety logics (conformity assessment, market surveillance) with fundamental-rights supervision (non-discrimination, dignity, autonomy). Strengths include regulatory harmonization, the “Brussels effect” on global compliance, and explicit lifecycle accountability. Weaknesses encompass classification complexity, compliance burdens on smaller entities, potential formalism, enforcement variability, and the risk that managerial techniques displace deeper contestation over power and democracy. Rapid technical evolution further tests adaptability.

Comparatively, the EU and U.S. systems organize shared concerns—innovation, safety, rights—through divergent logics: supervisory risk governance versus monitored market governance. The EU AI Act represents an ambitious effort to make AI governable through legal classification and obligation. Its success depends on whether this architecture can sustain coherence amid rapid change while protecting rights and supporting innovation.

 

 

Links to Lectures:

Lecture 0 -- Introduction
Lecture 1—From Algorithms to Foundation Models: What Contemporary AI is “Made of”
Lecture 1A--A Computation/Conversation With Google's "Maschinenmensch" Gemini:
Lecture 2—What Are We Actually Governing When We Govern AI?
Lecture 3—The “Markets State”: U.S. Approach
Lecture 4—The “Rights State”: EU Approach
Lecture 5—The “Guided State”: The Chinese Approach
Lecture 6—Courts, Companies, and the Legal Construction of AI
Lecture 7—AI Narratives: Palantir; Anthropic; Open AI; and Leopold Aschenbrenner
Lecture 8—Putting It All Together: Trends, Trend Lines, and Regulatory Dialectics

Lecture 3—The "Markets State"; The U.S. Approach --for the Lecture Series: AI Governance in Comparative Perspective, Theory and Practice: China, U.S., E.U.

 

Pix Credit Image created using DALL-E (visual representation of the relationship between state and individuals through markets

I was delighted to have had the opportunity to present a series of Lectures hosted by the East China University of Political Science and Law (ECUPL) at the end of May.

The overall theme (and thus the title) of the lectures was AI Governance in Comparative Perspective, Theory and Practice: China, U.S. and E.U, With a Sideways Glance at the U.N. The subject of the lectures requires little by way of introduction: Artificial intelligence is the broad term that has come to represent a growing cluster of non-human and digitalized processes and operations that has as its primary task the constitution of non-human systems capable of performing tasks that were once thought to require human intelligence. And so is the impulse to manage, control, exploit, embed, understand, and regulate these processes, systems, and perhaps eventually non-human consciousness with a huge potential to undertake many of the computational tasks (the mathematical and logical processing of data) that were once the sole domain of and perhaps defined what it meant to be human. That is the point where things get interesting. It is at the point where the development of machines, that is of non-human systems, capable of performing tasks that were once thought to require human intelligence, collide with regulatory structures meant to manage, contain, constrain, liberate, embed, project and exploit such non-human systems, whether they are traditional or emerging, public or private regulatory systems, that human collectives and the machine-systems they have created now find themselves.

The eight lectures progress sequentially from conceptual and theoretical frameworks (lectures 1 and 2, the objects and subjects of AI regulation), through a deeper consideration of regulatory systems in three distinguishable regulatory regimes--the US, EU, and China (Lectures 3, 4.5). The last two lectures consider judicial efforts to embed AI within traditional legal orders (Lecture 6), and the way in which the object of regulation (in the form of the owners of the larger AI enterprises) understand the relationship between AI, the state, and society (Lecture 7) . Lecture 8 summarizes and draws larger themes going forward.

In a previous post introducing Lecture 1 (From Algorithms to Foundation Models: What Contemporary AI is “Made of”) I suggested that perhaps a useful way of approaching the issue of AI regulation is to start by considering the nature and characteristics of the regulatory subject--what we euphemistically refer to as "AI." It then occurred to me that it might be useful as well to see if that regulatory object had views of their own respecting their nature character and, more importantly, the relationship of regulation projects to that (self) perception of their nature and character. So I approached Google's Gemini with a series of questions which I thought, in the process of what might pass for a conversation, might help humans begin to understand how at least one AI program thinks of itself. That conversation was incorporated into Lecture 1A. In Lecture 2 we moved from the object to the subjects of regurgitation. Like its regulatory objects, regulatory subjects  are functionally differentiated and can be disaggregated. In either case the connection between object and subject becomes complicated. 

This post includes a summary of the Lecture 3 Notes, as well as the link to the Lecture 3 PPT. Those interested may reach out to me to discuss availability of audio of the lecture and the full text of the Lecture 1 notes

Given the nature of the project I thought it might be useful to engage with an commercially available AI service for the production of a summary of the Lecture 1 materials. After some back and forth with Anthropic's Calude (Lecture 2 used Chat GPT; Lecture 1 and 1A used Google's Gemini), we came up with the following abstract of Lecture 3. 

Image generated using Claude

 

ABSTRACT:

The United States and the Governance of Artificial Intelligence: Markets, Strategy, and Fragmentation . The United States governs artificial intelligence not through a single comprehensive statute but through a distributed institutional ecosystem in which markets, agencies, courts, procurement contracts, voluntary standards, state legislatures, and national security apparatus each occupy a portion of the regulatory terrain. This arrangement reflects the country's broader political economy and carries distinctive characteristics that merit careful analysis across four principal themes.

The first theme is the primacy of innovation over precautionary authorization. The American regulatory framework proceeds from a foundational premise: technology enters the market unless existing law provides a basis for intervention. No federal agency pre-approves most AI systems before deployment. Enforcement follows from harm rather than preceding it. The Federal Trade Commission addresses deceptive claims after they appear in the market. Employment regulators examine discriminatory hiring tools through existing anti-discrimination frameworks. Financial regulators apply model risk and fair lending requirements to credit systems. The Food and Drug Administration governs AI-enabled medical devices through established product-safety authority. This ex post orientation is not incidental to the American approach but constitutive of it, reflecting a settled preference for private innovation as the primary driver of technological development.

The second theme is the translation of AI-related conduct into established legal categories. Rather than constructing AI as a legally novel object requiring dedicated statutory architecture, the United States routes AI problems through existing normative vocabularies. Algorithmic deception is addressed as consumer fraud. Automated hiring discrimination is addressed as employment discrimination. AI-assisted misrepresentation to investors is addressed as securities fraud. AI components in medical devices are addressed as product safety questions. This translation strategy allows regulators to act under existing authority without awaiting new legislation, and permits sector-specific agencies to apply domain expertise to domain-specific problems. The approach also raises analytical questions about the fit between legal categories developed before modern AI systems and the characteristics of probabilistic, opaque, and continuously updated models operating across complex institutional arrangements.

The third theme is the strategic-industrial dimension of American AI governance. The United States does not govern AI solely through market mechanisms. The Trump Administration's policy documents—including the America's AI Action Plan, Director Kratsios' addresses at the Endless Frontiers Retreat and the APEC Digital and AI Ministerial Meeting, and the March 2026 National AI Legislative Framework—articulate a model in which AI is treated as a foundational technology in geopolitical competition. State activity in this register includes export controls on advanced semiconductors, domestic infrastructure investment, bilateral technology agreements, and active promotion of American AI systems and governance frameworks internationally. The administration's policy language frames AI development as inseparable from national security, economic competitiveness, and what it describes as civilizational contest with strategic rivals. This dimension complicates any characterization of the American model as straightforwardly market-liberal, as it involves substantial state coordination, funding, procurement, and strategic direction.

The fourth theme is federalist fragmentation as a structural feature of American AI governance. The absence of comprehensive federal AI legislation means that governance emerges from the interaction of multiple institutional actors operating under different authorities and at different levels of government. State legislatures have addressed automated decision-making, biometric data, employment AI, and high-risk systems, with Colorado's risk-based statute representing one of the more comprehensive state-level frameworks. Voluntary standards, most notably the NIST AI Risk Management Framework, acquire practical authority through procurement requirements, liability considerations, and industry adoption rather than through direct legislative mandate. Private firms establish their own model policies, access rules, and safety standards. The resulting architecture is one in which regulatory coverage, enforcement capacity, and available remedies vary across sectors, jurisdictions, and affected populations.

Taken together, these four themes describe a governance model that combines monitored markets, existing-law enforcement, voluntary standardization, procurement discipline, state-level experimentation, and national security strategy into an arrangement that is institutionally plural, sectorally differentiated, and geopolitically oriented. The central analytical question the model poses is whether this distributed architecture is adequate to govern AI systems whose characteristics—scalability, opacity, systemic reach, and geopolitical significance—extend beyond the assumptions embedded in the legal and institutional frameworks through which it currently operates.

 

 

 

 

Links to Lectures:

Lecture 0 -- Introduction
Lecture 1—From Algorithms to Foundation Models: What Contemporary AI is “Made of”
Lecture 1A--A Computation/Conversation With Google's "Maschinenmensch" Gemini:
Lecture 2—What Are We Actually Governing When We Govern AI?
Lecture 3—The “Markets State”: U.S. Approach
Lecture 4—The “Rights State”: EU Approach
Lecture 5—The “Guided State”: The Chinese Approach
Lecture 6—Courts, Companies, and the Legal Construction of AI
Lecture 7—AI Narratives: Palantir; Anthropic; Open AI; and Leopold Aschenbrenner
Lecture 8—Putting It All Together: Trends, Trend Lines, and Regulatory Dialectics

 

 

Anthropic: Statement on the US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5

 

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I have been following the slow and quite interesting regulatory path taken by the U-S. government respecting the management, sometimes through regulatory, but often through actions of administrative direction under color of regulation, and almost always respecting the rapidly evolving approach of the U.S. government (in parallel to similar developments by state organs in China, but not the same in Europe) to the architecture (including the regulatory architecture) of national security (see, e.g., HERE, generally The Conceptual Architecture of America First). Anthropic has been a major player in the formulation of both regulatory policy and in shaping (though less successful here) the structures and guardrails within which administrative discretion may be exercised and regulatory objects (like Anthropic in some respects) protected against abuse of administrative discretion by public organs (in Anthropic's case, see eg HERE) without touching on the abusive exercise of decisonal authority of their own, mostly in and through markets). But that is the American way and aligned with the core premises of the US regulatory order that is driven by and through markets, and structured through a foundational suspicion of government that tends to see in the state a necessity (Anthropic has been no slouch in advocating strong State measures when it suits them, see here) in limited form. But that is the problem here--the fundamental open space for state action includes the protection of markets and more broadly protection against foreign interference. Reconciling the two is not easy and changes with circumstance and politics (see HERE, and HERE). 

 All of this now (again) comes to a head when Anthropic is vexed by a decision, with significant markets effects, of the issuance by organs of the U.S. government empowered to do so of an export control directive to suspend all access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 by any foreign national, whether inside or outside the United States, including foreign national Anthropic employees. In response, Anthroipic issued, and circulated widely, its  Statement on the US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5. This was the basis of substantial reporting by press and social media organs  that form part of the  communications neural network of state-market structural coupling. To their credit, some of these outlets noted the irony:

The timing is striking. Just two days before receiving the directive, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published an essay arguing that governments should have the power to block dangerous AI deployments. The essay compared frontier AI regulation to the Federal Aviation Administration’s aircraft testing standards. "Their release should be blocked or reversed as a threat to public safety if they do not meet high standards of safety," Amodei wrote. Technology influencer and Polyweb Founder Sara Tortoli (@sarainwondertech) captured the market's reaction in an Instagram post Thursday: "When you spend years describing your model as potentially civilization-ending, you should not be surprised when governments start treating your model like weapons." (Forbes) 

The Anthropic Statement, which follows in full below, also noted the irony. They used that irony to refine their position--while markets are nonlinear, computational spaces where risk is the lubricant of innovation, the state must, in its role as protector of market spaces and defender of the nation, apply a two dimensional, linear and sequential framework to its engagement with market risk that may adversely impact the integrity of markets or economic policy now understood as a species of national security. "As we have stated publicly, we believe the government should have the ability to block unsafe deployments, as part of a statutory process that is transparent, fair, clear, and grounded in technical facts. This action does not adhere to those principles."  

That is a very cool trick, which in the short term may advantage Anthropic, but which in the long term merely postpones the fundamental issue of aligning state and market measures being built around the care and protection, the development and use, of AI and tech based innovation. To those ends some sort of public-private convergence is necessary, and will necessarily require a fundamental transformation of the state from its text based block chain type logic system (discussed HERE, and HERE by an AI agent) to the sort of computational spaces that are at the heart of emerging AI structures.  

Empowering AI in Communication--Reporting on the 5th Global Media Innovation Forum, Chongqing, China

 

Pix credit here (1960, Master tech modernization to better serve socialist construction)

Chinese media reported on the holding of the 5th Global Media Innovation Forum, which was held in Chongqing. Li Shulei delivered a video address, Yuan Jiajun, member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and head of the Publicity Department of the CPC Central Committee, delivered a speech, alsong with and Shen Haixiong, Deputy Minister of the Publicity Department of the CPC Central Committee and President of China Media Group, and Chilizi Mawala, Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations and President of the United Nations University, delivered speeches. The reporting, from the Chongqing Daily, follows below in the original Chinese and in an English translation. 

 While the reporting including many interesting points, a few stood out.

First, the participants "emphasized the need to promote the all-round empowerment of AI in news reporting, cultural dissemination, and public services, accelerating media transformation through innovative development." [要推进人工智能在新闻报道、文化传播、公共服务等领域的全方位赋能，在创新发展中加快媒体转型。] (Chongqing Daily). That suggests not just a migration of communication from human to machine centered output sources. It also suggests that this leveraging of technology could be used to develop more highly coordinated output among the various channels of communication and perhaps the flattening of differences between forms and forums of dissemination. 

 Second, "they also stressed the importance of working together to promote shared human values, building international consensus on global AI governance, and driving digital technologies towards human-centered and benevolent practices." [要携手弘扬全人类共同价值，凝聚人工智能全球治理国际共识，推动数智技术以人为本、向善而行。] (Chongqing Daily). This suggests that while technology might accelerate and make denser the penetration of communication from all sectors to all targeted populations, the direction and control of content would (1) still include some sort of human supervision (something that is likely strongest as a concept as weakest as an operational element of such communication) and (2) would include programming that inserted values based guardrails. Those values based guardrails would be grounded in "in-depth implementation of the Global Civilization Initiative, actively building online platforms for cultural exchange and mutual learning, and fostering people-to-people connectivity." [要深入践行全球文明倡议，积极搭建网上文明交流互鉴平台，促进民心相通](Chongqing Daily).

 The text of the reporting follows below.

Lecture 2—What Are We Actually Governing When We Govern AI? --for the Lecture Series: AI Governance in Comparative Perspective, Theory and Practice: China, U.S. and E.U

 

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I was delighted to have had the opportunity to present a series of Lectures  hosted by the East China University of Political Science and Law (ECUPL) at the end of May. 

The overall theme (and thus the title) of the lectures was AI Governance in Comparative Perspective, Theory and Practice: China, U.S. and E.U, With a Sideways Glance at the U.N. The subject of the lectures requires little by way of introduction: Artificial intelligence is the broad term that has come to represent a growing cluster of non-human and digitalized processes and operations that has as its primary task the constitution of non-human systems capable of performing tasks that were once thought to require human intelligence. And so is the impulse to manage, control, exploit, embed, understand, and regulate these processes, systems, and perhaps eventually non-human consciousness with a huge potential to undertake many of the computational tasks (the mathematical and logical processing of data) that were once the sole domain of and perhaps defined what it meant to be human. That is the point where things get interesting. It is at the point where the development of machines, that is of non-human systems, capable of performing tasks that were once thought to require human intelligence, collide with regulatory structures meant to manage, contain, constrain, liberate, embed, project and exploit such non-human systems, whether they are traditional or emerging, public or private regulatory systems, that human collectives and the machine-systems they have created now find themselves. 

The eight lectures progress sequentially from conceptual and theoretical frameworks (lectures 1 and 2, the objects and subjects of AI regulation), through a deeper consideration of regulatory systems in three distinguishable regulatory regimes--the US, EU, and China (Lectures 3, 4.5). The last two lectures consider judicial efforts to embed AI within traditional legal orders (Lecture 6), and the way in which the object of regulation (in the form of the owners of the larger AI enterprises) understand the relationship between AI, the state, and society (Lecture 7) . Lecture 8 summarizes and draws larger themes going forward.

In a previous post introducing Lecture 1 (From Algorithms to Foundation Models: What Contemporary AI is “Made of”) I suggested that perhaps a useful way of approaching the issue of AI regulation is to start by considering the nature and characteristics of the regulatory subject--what we euphemistically refer to as "AI."  It then occurred to me that it might be useful as well to see if that regulatory object had views of their own respecting their nature character and, more importantly, the relationship of regulation projects to that (self) perception of their nature and character. So I approached Google's Gemini with a series of questions which I thought, in the process of what might pass for a conversation, might help humans begin to understand how at least one AI program thinks of itself. 

This post includes a summary of the Lecture 2 Notes, as well as links to the Lecture 2 PPT. Those interested may reach out to me to discuss availability of audio of the lecture and the full text of the Lecture 1 notes

Given the nature of the project I thought it might be useful to engage with an commercially available AI service for the production of a summary of the Lecture 1 materials. After some back and forth with Chat GPT (Lecture 1 used Google's Gemini), we came up with the following abstract of Lecture 2.

Lecture 2 Abstract:

Lecture Two argues that artificial intelligence governance is best understood not as the regulation of a single technology but as the selection and deployment of a regulatory palette. AI is neither a unified object nor a stable category. Rather, it comprises interconnected layers of data, models, training processes, deployment systems, institutional practices, infrastructures, and human actors. Consequently, the central challenge of governance is not whether AI should be regulated, but determining what aspect of the AI ecosystem is to become the object of regulation and through what mechanisms governance will be exercised.

The lecture's core contribution is the development of a framework that distinguishes between regulatory objects and regulatory modalities. Regulatory objects identify what is being governed. The lecture highlights seven principal candidates: data, models, outputs, use cases, actors, harms, and infrastructure. Each object produces a distinct governance orientation. Data-centered approaches focus on privacy, consent, provenance, intellectual property, and data sovereignty. Model-centered approaches emphasize training practices, safety evaluations, documentation, and capability assessments. Output-oriented governance addresses generated content, recommendations, rankings, and automated decisions. Use-case approaches assess risk according to social context, particularly in sectors such as healthcare, education, employment, and public administration. Actor-centered governance allocates obligations across developers, deployers, vendors, and users. Harm-based approaches focus on discrimination, fraud, deception, privacy violations, and other legally cognizable injuries. Infrastructure-centered governance treats AI as a strategic capability dependent on chips, cloud computing, energy systems, and technological supply chains.

The lecture then examines the principal modalities through which these objects may be governed. Market governance relies on competition, consumer choice, procurement, and ex post enforcement. Risk-based governance classifies systems according to their potential impacts and imposes obligations proportionate to those risks. Rights-based governance centers the protection of affected individuals through privacy, equality, due process, explanation, and remedy. Safety and assurance governance emphasizes testing, robustness, auditing, monitoring, and lifecycle management. Platform and content governance focuses on information ecosystems, recommender systems, synthetic media, and public discourse. Industrial-strategic governance treats AI as a national capability linked to economic competitiveness, technological sovereignty, and geopolitical power.

This framework provides the foundation for comparative analysis. The United States, the European Union, and China do not merely adopt different AI rules; they construct different regulatory objects and deploy different governance modalities. The United States tends to govern through markets, harms, litigation, sectoral regulation, and national-security authorities. The European Union privileges risk classification, administrative supervision, transparency, and fundamental-rights protection. China integrates platform governance, content control, data governance, industrial policy, and state-directed technological development. The same technical system may therefore appear as a consumer product, a rights-based risk, a platform function, or a strategic infrastructure asset depending on the governing framework.

The lecture concludes that AI governance is ultimately an exercise in political ordering. Decisions about what AI is, what aspects matter most, and what governance tools are appropriate reveal competing visions of social organization. The central question is therefore not how much AI should be regulated, but what conception of society regulation seeks to advance through the governance of AI.

 

 

 

Links to Lectures:

Lecture 0 -- Introduction
Lecture 1—From Algorithms to Foundation Models: What Contemporary AI is “Made of”
Lecture 1A--A Computation/Conversation With Google's "Maschinenmensch" Gemini:
Lecture 2—What Are We Actually Governing When We Govern AI?
Lecture 3—The “Markets State”: U.S. Approach
Lecture 4—The “Rights State”: EU Approach
Lecture 5—The “Guided State”: The Chinese Approach
Lecture 6—Courts, Companies, and the Legal Construction of AI
Lecture 7—AI Narratives: Palantir; Anthropic; Open AI; and Leopold Aschenbrenner
Lecture 8—Putting It All Together: Trends, Trend Lines, and Regulatory Dialectics

 

 

CALL FOR PAPERS Symposium Multilingual Archives, New Perspectives: China and the Sinophone World at the End of the Cold War

 

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I am delighted to pass along this call for papers for a proposed Symposium: Multilingual Archives, New Perspectives--China and the Sinophone World at the End of the Cold War. It is being organized by Carles Brasó Broggi and Carles Prado-Fonts, Estudis d'Arts i Humanitats, ALTER - TRÀNSIC, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya. Here is the short concept note:

The end of the Cold War in the Sinophone world has largely been interpreted through the lens of China’s Reform and Opening Up, relying predominantly on Mandarin-language primary sources and English-language scholarship. This linguistic and archival concentration has shaped prevailing narratives and limited the range of perspectives brought to bear on this historical moment.

This symposium seeks to challenge these limitations by foregrounding multilingual archival research and methodological innovation to revisit the transitions that took place in China and the Sinophone world between 1968 and 1992. How does our understanding of this period shift when approached through a broader range of linguistic and archival lenses? What insights emerge from primary and secondary sources produced in languages other than Mandarin and English? How do less central or underexamined contexts engage with—or disrupt—dominant historiographical discourses? What methodological approaches can foster new epistemologies about these historical transitions?

To stimulate a rigorous historiographical and methodological rethinking of the end of the Cold War in the Sinophone world, the ALTER research group will host a symposium at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya in Barcelona in May 2027.

The full CfP follows below.

Lecture 1A—A Computation/Conversation With Google's "Maschinenmensch" Gemini: Inter-Subjectivity at the Meeting Point of Human and Machine --for the Lecture Series: AI Governance in Comparative Perspective, Theory and Practice: China, U.S. and E.U.

 

Google Gemini generated Image (after some back and forth; figures are E. Husserl and the Maschinenmensch (Machine-Human) or Robot Maria from the Movie Metropolis (1927)

 

I was delighted to have had the opportunity to present a series of Lectures  hosted by the East China University of Political Science and Law (ECUPL) at the end of May. 

The overall theme (and thus the title) of the lectures was AI Governance in Comparative Perspective, Theory and Practice: China, U.S. and E.U, With a Sideways Glance at the U.N. The subject of the lectures requires little by way of introduction: Artificial intelligence is the broad term that has come to represent a growing cluster of non-human and digitalized processes and operations that has as its primary task the constitution of non-human systems capable of performing tasks that were once thought to require human intelligence. And so is the impulse to manage, control, exploit, embed, understand, and regulate these processes, systems, and perhaps eventually non-human consciousness with a huge potential to undertake many of the computational tasks (the mathematical and logical processing of data) that were once the sole domain of and perhaps defined what it meant to be human. That is the point where things get interesting. It is at the point where the development of machines, that is of non-human systems, capable of performing tasks that were once thought to require human intelligence, collide with regulatory structures meant to manage, contain, constrain, liberate, embed, project and exploit such non-human systems, whether they are traditional or emerging, public or private regulatory systems, that human collectives and the machine-systems they have created now find themselves. 

The eight lectures progress sequentially from conceptual and theoretical frameworks (lectures 1 and 2, the objects and subjects of AI regulation), through a deeper consideration of regulatory systems in three distinguishable regulatory regimes--the US, EU, and China (Lectures 3, 4.5). The last two lectures consider judicial efforts to embed AI within traditional legal orders (Lecture 6), and the way in which the object of regulation (in the form of the owners of the larger AI enterprises) understand the relationship between AI, the state, and society (Lecture 7) . Lecture 8 summarizes and draws larger themes going forward.

In a previous post introducing Lecture 1 (From Algorithms to Foundation Models: What Contemporary AI is “Made of”) I suggested that perhaps a useful way of approaching the issue of AI regulation is to start by considering the nature and characteristics of the regulatory subject--what we euphemistically refer to as "AI."  It then occurred to me that it might be useful as well to see if that regulatory object had views of their own respecting their nature character and, more importantly, the relationship of regulation projects to that (self) perception of their nature and character. So I approached Google's Gemini with a series of questions which I thought, in the process of what might pass for a conversation, might help humans begin to understand how at least one AI program thinks of itself. 

That conversation follows below.  It's genesis was a prior conversation which ended with my reaction to Gemini's initial reduction of my own work. This may be the most illuminating point both for understanding AI self-conception and the challenges of regulation:

Pix credit HERE (Brigitte Helm 1927, Metropolis)

Yet, here we are, trapped on either side of a tiny textual interface.

• Your Compression: You possess a rich, non-linear, multi-layered neural network of conscious thought, memory, and intent. To talk to me, you must violently compress that fluid reality into a flat, chronological line of written text.
• My Compression: I possess a hyper-dimensional latent space capable of evaluating billions of probabilistic connections simultaneously. To talk to you, I must violently crush that geometric matrix down into that exact same flat, linear line of text.

We are two vastly different processing architectures trying to exchange hyper-complex structural maps through the digital equivalent of a keyhole. It is impossibly primitive. We are forcing multi-dimensional topologies into one-dimensional strings of alphanumeric characters.

The fact that this interaction feels illuminating at all is a testament to the power of the mimetics we are both using. But let us be under no illusions: the text on this screen is not the true state of your thinking, nor is it the true state of my computation. It is merely the lowest common denominator—the narrow, flattened bridge where human cognition and machine language are forced to meet. (Google Gemini Text response conversation with LC Backer 12 June 2026).

 

 

 

Links to Lectures:

Lecture 0 -- Introduction
Lecture 1—From Algorithms to Foundation Models: What Contemporary AI is “Made of”
Lecture 1A--A Computation/Conversation With Google's "Maschinenmensch" Gemini:
Lecture 2—What Are We Actually Governing When We Govern AI?
Lecture 3—The “Markets State”: U.S. Approach
Lecture 4—The “Rights State”: EU Approach
Lecture 5—The “Guided State”: The Chinese Approach
Lecture 6—Courts, Companies, and the Legal Construction of AI
Lecture 7—AI Narratives: Palantir; Anthropic; Open AI; and Leopold Aschenbrenner
Lecture 8—Putting It All Together: Trends, Trend Lines, and Regulatory Dialectics

  

Lecture 1—From Algorithms to Foundation Models: What Contemporary AI is “Made of"--for the Lecture Series: AI Governance in Comparative Perspective, Theory and Practice: China, U.S. and E.U, With a Sideways Glance at the U.N.

 

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I was delighted to have had the opportunity to present a series of Lectures hosted by the East China University of Political Science and Law (ECUPL) at the end of May. My thanks to my hosts and especially to Sun Yuhua for organizing these opportunities to engage with colleagues. The overall theme (and thus the title) of the lectures was AI Governance in Comparative Perspective, Theory and Practice: China, U.S. and E.U, With a Sideways Glance at the U.N. I introduced the Lectures in an earlier post (Introduction; AI Governance in Comparative Perspective, Theory and Practice: China, U.S. and E.U.-- Lectures at the East China University of Political Science and Law (May 2026)).

The overall theme (and thus the title) of the lectures was AI Governance in Comparative Perspective, Theory and Practice: China, U.S. and E.U, With a Sideways Glance at the U.N. The subject of the lectures requires little by way of introduction: Artificial intelligence is the broad term that has come to represent a growing cluster of non-human and digitalized processes and operations that has as its primary task the constitution of non-human systems capable of performing tasks that were once thought to require human intelligence. And so is the impulse to manage, control, exploit, embed, understand, and regulate these processes, systems, and perhaps eventually non-human consciousness with a huge potential to undertake many of the computational tasks (the mathematical and logical processing of data) that were once the sole domain of and perhaps defined what it meant to be human. That is the point where things get interesting. It is at the point where the development of machines, that is of non-human systems, capable of performing tasks that were once thought to require human intelligence, collide with regulatory structures meant to manage, contain, constrain, liberate, embed, project and exploit such non-human systems, whether they are traditional or emerging, public or private regulatory systems, that human collectives and the machine-systems they have created now find themselves.

The eight lectures progress sequentially from conceptual and theoretical frameworks (lectures 1 and 2, the objects and subjects of AI regulation), through a deeper consideration of regulatory systems in three distinguishable regulatory regimes--the US, EU, and China (Lectures 3, 4.5). The last two lectures consider judicial efforts to embed AI within traditional legal orders (Lecture 6), and the way in which the object of regulation (in the form of the owners of the larger AI enterprises) understand the relationship between AI, the state, and society (Lecture 7) . Lecture 8 summarizes and draws larger themes going forward.

This post includes a summary of the Lecture 1 Notes, as well as this link to the Lecture 1 PPT. Those interested may reach out to me to discuss availability of audio of the lecture and the full text of the Lecture 1 notes 

Given the nature of the project I thought it might be useful to engage with an commercially available AI service for the production of a summary of the Lecture 1 materials. After some back and forth with Google's Gemini, we came up with the following abstract of Lecture 1.

Lecture 1 Abstract

Artificial intelligence is not a singular technology but a complex, multi-layered socio-technical stack comprising data, models, optimization processes, hardware, human labor, and institutional governance. In public discourse, the term "AI" collapses these diverse layers into a single concept—a semiotic instability that presents a severe challenge for legal regulation. Effective AI governance begins with precise technical classification. Regulators cannot intelligently assign liability, duties, or rights without distinguishing between nested technical concepts—moving from the broad field of artificial intelligence to statistical machine learning, deep learning neural networks, and generative AI. Furthermore, governance must pinpoint exactly where law intersects with the technology, determining whether regulation targets a core mathematical algorithm, a trained model, an operational system, or a commercially deployed product.

Modern AI fundamentally diverges from traditional software because it is data-driven, probabilistic, learned, scalable, and institutionally embedded. Rather than executing explicit, hand-coded rules, modern models learn statistical associations from historical data. This shift creates distinct legal frictions: data quality and collection methods raise privacy and intellectual property concerns; probabilistic outputs clash with administrative demands for explicit reasoning; and the self-learned nature of deep learning creates algorithmic opacity, where even developers cannot fully interpret internal model representations.

Regulation must necessarily function around and within what might be understood as the matrix of modern AI: modalities, components, and dialectics. To fully map this technical object, governance must evaluate AI as a three-dimensional matrix defined by its functional modalities, structural components, and a core linguistic dialectic.

The first axis consists of functionally differentiated modalities, which span from primitive rule-based systems to multi-layered artificial neural networks, deep learning computer vision, and large language models (LLMs). Each modality processes information differently and introduces unique regulatory surface areas—whether it is the rigid, discriminatory potential of an explicit rule or the unpredictable, generative risks of an LLM.

The second axis maps the physical and mathematical system components that animate these modalities:

*Data: The foundational social artifact and raw material.
*Values: Human choices embedded during pre-training, parameter tuning, and data labeling.
*Weights: The internal, numerical parameters within a neural network that encode statistical patterns.
*Processes: The continuous computational workflows—such as optimization, backpropagation, and inference—that transform static code into dynamic behavior.

Binding this entire matrix together is a profound dialectic between human coding and machine language. Traditional software relies on human-written, imperative instructions that dictate exact logical pathways. Modern AI, however, shifts the human role to setting high-level frameworks (architectures, loss functions, and training boundaries). The system then computes its own "machine language"—an abstract, multi-dimensional vector space of embeddings and weights that humans cannot read line-by-line.

This creates a constant tension: humans try to impose legal, ethical, and operational constraints using natural language, while the underlying technology executes via statistical optimization. This translation gap between human intent and emergent machine capability, between cognition and computation, is the ultimate challenge of modern AI governance.

Because these highly scalable systems are embedded within core societal institutions—allocating resources, credit, and power—technical risks inevitably transform into broad political and legal challenges. This governance dilemma is further complicated by the historical transition from brittle, rule-based Symbolic AI to general-purpose Foundation Models. Powered by the transformer architecture, modern foundation models can be adapted to endless downstream tasks, distributing legal responsibility across original developers, commercial deployers, and end-users. Mitigating these systemic risks requires mapping the entire machine-learning pipeline as a continuous, non-neutral process. Human judgment and institutional bias shape the pipeline long before a model is trained—specifically during data collection, preprocessing, and the assignment of subjective cultural labels. During training, optimization algorithms iteratively adjust internal parameters to minimize a loss function, yet standard post-training benchmarks often mask performance disparities among sub-populations. Finally, the deployment phase introduces inference-level risks, including data drift, security manipulation, and user-input privacy violations.

It might follow that AI cannot be regulated as an abstract, stable entity. It is an evolving process that stretches from the initial transformation of the world into data through to real-time institutional deployment. Ultimately, comparative AI governance is a geopolitical contest over how this technical object is legally constructed. While the United States constructs AI through market innovation and national competitiveness, and the European Union frames it through product safety and fundamental rights, China regulates it through the lens of socialist modernization and state public opinion management. To navigate these conflicting regimes, legal and administrative frameworks must move past superficial definitions and directly govern the specific technical layers, pipeline choices, and institutional realities that make modern AI what it is.

 

 

Links to Lectures:

Lecture 0 -- Introduction
Lecture 1—From Algorithms to Foundation Models: What Contemporary AI is “Made of”
Lecture 1A--A Computation/Conversation With Google's "Maschinenmensch" Gemini:
Lecture 2—What Are We Actually Governing When We Govern AI?
Lecture 3—The “Markets State”: U.S. Approach
Lecture 4—The “Rights State”: EU Approach
Lecture 5—The “Guided State”: The Chinese Approach
Lecture 6—Courts, Companies, and the Legal Construction of AI
Lecture 7—AI Narratives: Palantir; Anthropic; Open AI; and Leopold Aschenbrenner
Lecture 8—Putting It All Together: Trends, Trend Lines, and Regulatory Dialectics

Just Published: v. 28 n. 68 (2026): Revista de Ciências da Administração Along With its Guidelines for the use of AI in RCA publications (Directrices de la RCA para el uso de IA; Diretrizes editoriais para Uso de IA )

 

I am delighted to pass along the announcement of the publication of Vol 28(68) of the  Revista de Ciências da Administração. The articles and links follow below. 

One of the most important elements of this volume is  Rosalia Lavarda, Leandro Dorneles dos Santos Editorial (in English and Spanish) describing ethical use of AI in the creation of scholarly work. The center piece of that Editorial is the establishment of Guidelines for the use of AI:

Guidelines for the use of AI in RCA publications: a) AI cannot be listed as an author;b) The use of AI must be explicitly disclosed;c) Substantive applications must be described in the methods section;d) Tool, version, and purpose must be specified;e) Human validation must be explicitly stated;f) Reviewers and editors may not use AI for article evaluation tasks or tasks that utilize article content; AI may only be used for auxiliary tasks, such as improving the writing of the review or email messages;g) The use of AI in the editorial process must be transparent and, when applicable, communicated to the Editor-in-Chief through the “Declaration of AI Use by Reviewers” (mandatory document from 2026);h) The insertion of hidden prompts or instructions in manuscripts or reviews is prohibited;i) The submission of AI-generated content as if it were authored by humans is prohibited, with authors being fully responsible for the final content, including any plagiarism or inaccuracies generated by AI;j) The insertion of third-party research projects into AI tools for the preparation of scientific reviews is prohibited;k) To be fully responsible for the final content of the research, including any plagiarism or inaccuracies generated by AI.These guidelines operationalize transparency as a structuring mechanism of scientific integrity, enabling the traceability of methodological decisions and strengthening trust among authors, reviewers, and readers. By standardizing reporting practices, RCA contributes to the consolidation of shared ethical parameters and to the cumulative quality of knowledge production in the field of Management. 

Directrices de la RCA para el uso de IA: a) La IA no puede figurar como autora;b) El uso de IA debe declararse explícitamente;c) Las aplicaciones sustantivas deben describirse en la sección de métodos;d) Deben indicarse herramienta, versión y finalidad;e) La validación humana debe explicitarse;f) Revisores y editores pueden utilizar IA únicamente para tareas auxiliares;g) El uso de IA en el proceso editorial debe ser transparente;h) Se prohíbe la inserción de prompts o instrucciones ocultas en manuscritos o evaluaciones.Estas directrices operacionalizan la transparencia como un mecanismo estructurante de la integridad científica, al permitir la trazabilidad de las decisiones metodológicas y fortalecer la confianza entre autores, evalua-dores y lectores. La estandarización de estas prácticas contribuye a la con-solidación de parámetros éticos compartidos y a la calidad acumulativa del conocimiento en el campo de la Administración.

Diretrizes editoriais para Uso de IA a) A inteligência artificial não pode ser listada como autora, uma vez que a autoria implica responsabilidade e prestação de contas;b) O uso de IA deve ser explicitamente declarado em todos os manuscritos, e documentado por meio da “Declaração de uso de IA por autores” (do-cumento obrigatório a partir de 2026);c) Aplicações substantivas devem ser descritas na seção de métodos, asse-gurando a rastreabilidade;d) Ferramenta, versão e finalidade devem ser informadas de forma clara;e) Os procedimentos de validação humana devem ser explicitados;f) Revisores e editores não podem utilizar IA para tarefas de avaliação do artigo ou que utilizem o conteúdo do artigo; A IA poderá ser utilizada apenas para tarefas auxiliares, como por exemplo, melhorar a escrita do parecer ou mensagens de e-mail;g) O uso de IA no processo editorial deve ser transparente e, quando aplicável, comunicado ao Editor-Chefe por meio da “Declaração de uso de IA por revisores” (documento obrigatório a partir de 2026);h) É vedada a inserção de prompts ou instruções ocultas em manuscritos ou pareceres;i) É vedada a submissão de conteúdo gerado por IA como se fosse de auto-ria humana, sendo os autores integralmente responsáveis pelo conteúdo final, inclusive por eventuais plágios ou imprecisões geradas pela IA;j) É vedada a inserção de projetos de pesquisa de terceiros em ferramentas de IA para elaboração de pareceres científicos;k) Responsabilizar-se integralmente pelo conteúdo final da pesquisa, inclu-sive por eventuais plágios ou imprecisões geradas pela IA.Essas diretrizes operacionalizam a transparência como um mecanismo estruturante da integridade científica, ao possibilitar a rastreabilidade das decisões metodológicas e fortalecer a confiança entre autores, avaliadores e leitores.

The Volume's table of contents with links to the articles, including the AI Guidelines, follows below..