By Greg Woolf, AI RegRisk Think Tank What happens to the economy when AI-powered machines begin replacing large portions of human cognitive work? Some analysts believ…
By Greg Woolf, AI RegRisk Think Tank Last month Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, published an essay titled “The Adolescence of Technology,” makes a point that’s easy to…
By Greg Woolf, AI RegRisk Think Tank In the same week the United States formally approved the export of Nvidia’s most powerful AI chips to China, it also moved to shut…
By Greg Woolf, AI RegRisk Think Tank When OpenAI released GPT-3 in late 2022, it sent shockwaves through Mountain View. Reports at the time revealed that Larry Page a…
By Greg Woolf, AI RegRisk Think Tank Four months ago, an MIT report made waves with the claim that 95% of AI projects fail — hitting a nerve with AI fatigue, hype ba…
By Greg Woolf, AI RegRisk Think Tank The AI revolution may not end with a killer robot. It may end with a blackout. Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, summed up the new i…
By Greg Woolf, AI RegRisk Think Tank The wealth management industry is about to face its biggest reality check in a century: A wealth transfer that nobody is ready for.…
By Greg Woolf, AI RegRisk Think Tank Before financial institutions can fully embrace generative AI, regulators are sending a clear warning: not so fast. The Treasury De…
By Greg Woolf, AI RegRisk Think Tank OpenAI has begun publishing practical playbooks and training programs to lower the barriers, demystify the process, and help lead…
By Greg Woolf, AI RegRisk Think Tank MIT’s State of AI in Business 2025 report sent shockwaves through markets with its claim that 95% of enterprise AI pilots are fai…
By Greg Woolf, AI RegRisk Think Tank Over the past two years, enthusiasm for AI has repeatedly countered economic headwinds. When the Fed raised rates to fight inflatio…
By Greg Woolf, AI RegRisk Think Tank Last year I described a renegade agent that spun up a Delaware LLC and began moving value on-chain without any human sign-off. Th…
By Greg Woolf, AI RegRisk Think Tank On July 18, Meta publicly declined to sign the European Commission’s new AI Code of Practice, the voluntary framework meant to pr…
By Greg Woolf, AI RegRisk Think Tank The Senate’s 99-1 vote on July 1 to delete a ten-year freeze on new state AI laws from the “One Big Beautiful Bill” was billed as…
By Greg Woolf, AI RegRisk Think Tank The potential impact of Generative AI on our social contract is well outlined in an April 2025 white paper titled The Intelligenc…
By Greg Woolf, AI RegRisk Think Tank The mantra of the moment is “AI-first.” Two years after companies began chanting it, the early returns are mixed. Some firms boas…
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By Greg Woolf, AI RegRisk Think Tank Conversation with a Wealth Industry Leader Last week I sat down with Mark Casady—former Chairman & CEO of LPL Financial, co-fo…
By Greg Woolf, AI RegRisk Think Tank Enterprises adopting AI are moving beyond “let’s-see-if-it-works” pilots into an Efficiency phase where every deployment must prove…
By Greg Woolf, AI RegRisk Think Tank The evolving US–China trade war is not merely a dispute over tariffs and geopolitics—it is also steering both nations toward an iso…
By Greg Woolf, AI RegRisk Think Tank Remembering the Failed SB-1047 You may remember the rise and fall of California’s Senate Bill SB-1047 last year, an initial attemp…
By Greg Woolf, AI RegRisk Think Tank The current urgency to surpass China in the ongoing AI arms race has shifted regulatory conversations to the back burner. In the…
By Greg Woolf, AI RegRisk Think Tank Everyone wants to know how AI is being used in the real world—across industries and job roles. Understanding its applications pro…
By Greg Woolf, AI RegRisk Think Tank As artificial intelligence charges toward human-level capabilities—from online agents and co-workers to sophisticated autonomous…