Matt Steinberg
@matt-steinberg.bsky.social
Tech Policy at Georgetown | fellow at New America's Open Technology Institute
I wrote a new brief with @premmtrivedi.bsky.social, AI Agents and Memory: Privacy and Power in the Model Context Protocol (MCP) Era).
As AI agents reshape how we interact online, we discuss the new challenges agents pose for privacy, security, and competition.
Hope this can be a helpful resource!
As AI agents reshape how we interact online, we discuss the new challenges agents pose for privacy, security, and competition.
Hope this can be a helpful resource!
AI Agents and Memory: Privacy and Power in the Model Context Protocol (MCP) Era
A brief on how to ensure agentic AI systems remain understandable, accountable, and aligned with the people they serve.
www.newamerica.org
November 5, 2025 at 3:55 PM
I wrote a new brief with @premmtrivedi.bsky.social, AI Agents and Memory: Privacy and Power in the Model Context Protocol (MCP) Era).
As AI agents reshape how we interact online, we discuss the new challenges agents pose for privacy, security, and competition.
Hope this can be a helpful resource!
As AI agents reshape how we interact online, we discuss the new challenges agents pose for privacy, security, and competition.
Hope this can be a helpful resource!
Ultimately, i don’t think AI advertising works. Ads are inherently about differentiating your brand, and AI slop makes everything look the same.
As we speak, this is happening on your Facebook feed.
Ticketmaster's personalized AI slop ads are a glimpse at the future of social media advertising, a harbinger of system that Mark Zuckerberg described last week in a Meta earnings call.
Read more: www.404media.co/the-future-o...
Ticketmaster's personalized AI slop ads are a glimpse at the future of social media advertising, a harbinger of system that Mark Zuckerberg described last week in a Meta earnings call.
Read more: www.404media.co/the-future-o...
November 3, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Ultimately, i don’t think AI advertising works. Ads are inherently about differentiating your brand, and AI slop makes everything look the same.
solidarity tonight with all my fellow dodger fans on the east coast. stay strong
October 28, 2025 at 5:29 AM
solidarity tonight with all my fellow dodger fans on the east coast. stay strong
If you want a lens into what the future of good tech could look like, this is it.
I had the chance to help research and write "Making AI Work for the Public", a new report from @newamerica.org’s #ReThinkAI collective.
Proud of this one — check it out!
www.newamerica.org/technology-a...
I had the chance to help research and write "Making AI Work for the Public", a new report from @newamerica.org’s #ReThinkAI collective.
Proud of this one — check it out!
www.newamerica.org/technology-a...
Making AI Work for the Public: An ALT Perspective
AI is shaping government by optimizing bureaucracy that residents distrust. Instead, we need a framework to deliver value and legitimacy.
www.newamerica.org
October 23, 2025 at 12:07 PM
If you want a lens into what the future of good tech could look like, this is it.
I had the chance to help research and write "Making AI Work for the Public", a new report from @newamerica.org’s #ReThinkAI collective.
Proud of this one — check it out!
www.newamerica.org/technology-a...
I had the chance to help research and write "Making AI Work for the Public", a new report from @newamerica.org’s #ReThinkAI collective.
Proud of this one — check it out!
www.newamerica.org/technology-a...
Remember the 2010s “Internet of Things” when our toasters suddenly connected to WiFi and became surveillance tools?
We should be ready for the 2020s “AI of Things”.
We should be ready for the 2020s “AI of Things”.
Matt Steinberg discusses how AI wearables and toys blur the line between products and speech—raising urgent regulatory gaps in privacy and child safety.
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September 29, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Remember the 2010s “Internet of Things” when our toasters suddenly connected to WiFi and became surveillance tools?
We should be ready for the 2020s “AI of Things”.
We should be ready for the 2020s “AI of Things”.
Retweeting this so I can more easily find it again in 3 years when we inevitably need to refer back to it.
nvidia to pay openai so they can get paid by softbank so they can pay oracle to pay nvidia
www.cnbc.com/2025/09/23/o...
www.cnbc.com/2025/09/23/o...
OpenAI's first data center in $500B Stargate project is open in Texas, with sites coming in New Mexico and Ohio
OpenAI and Oracle are betting big on America's AI future, bringing online the flagship site of the $500 billion Stargate program in Abilene, Texas.
www.cnbc.com
September 25, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Retweeting this so I can more easily find it again in 3 years when we inevitably need to refer back to it.
10 points to whoever wrote this line
“I want to be in Andor, not living in Andor,” says actor and SAG member Shannon Corbeil
September 22, 2025 at 7:26 PM
10 points to whoever wrote this line
Reposted by Matt Steinberg
“The problem is that our rules assume technology is either a product (regulated for physical safety), a service (regulated for speech), or an app (governed through platforms). Embodied AI is all three, but no single regulatory agency or statute can oversee the full picture,” writes Matt Steinberg.
AI Is Moving Into Physical Products, And Out of Regulatory Reach | TechPolicy.Press
Matt Steinberg discusses how AI wearables and toys blur the line between products and speech—raising urgent regulatory gaps in privacy and child safety.
www.techpolicy.press
September 22, 2025 at 3:27 PM
“The problem is that our rules assume technology is either a product (regulated for physical safety), a service (regulated for speech), or an app (governed through platforms). Embodied AI is all three, but no single regulatory agency or statute can oversee the full picture,” writes Matt Steinberg.
Excited to share my latest in @techpolicypress.bsky.social!
Remember when the 2010s Internet of Things felt exciting... until we realized our toasters were surveillance devices?
I look at what policies were missing back then, and suggest how we can adapt for the AI of Things.
tinyurl.com/35ah9sd7
Remember when the 2010s Internet of Things felt exciting... until we realized our toasters were surveillance devices?
I look at what policies were missing back then, and suggest how we can adapt for the AI of Things.
tinyurl.com/35ah9sd7
AI Is Moving Into Physical Products, And Out of Regulatory Reach | TechPolicy.Press
Matt Steinberg discusses how AI wearables and toys blur the line between products and speech—raising urgent regulatory gaps in privacy and child safety.
www.techpolicy.press
September 22, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Excited to share my latest in @techpolicypress.bsky.social!
Remember when the 2010s Internet of Things felt exciting... until we realized our toasters were surveillance devices?
I look at what policies were missing back then, and suggest how we can adapt for the AI of Things.
tinyurl.com/35ah9sd7
Remember when the 2010s Internet of Things felt exciting... until we realized our toasters were surveillance devices?
I look at what policies were missing back then, and suggest how we can adapt for the AI of Things.
tinyurl.com/35ah9sd7
How seriously are people taking the bit of good in Trumps Ai Action Plan?
The emphasis on open-source and open-weight models is great for many reasons (no ai platform lock-in!) but i am too cynical to even start to consider possible implications of this
The emphasis on open-source and open-weight models is great for many reasons (no ai platform lock-in!) but i am too cynical to even start to consider possible implications of this
July 25, 2025 at 8:46 PM
How seriously are people taking the bit of good in Trumps Ai Action Plan?
The emphasis on open-source and open-weight models is great for many reasons (no ai platform lock-in!) but i am too cynical to even start to consider possible implications of this
The emphasis on open-source and open-weight models is great for many reasons (no ai platform lock-in!) but i am too cynical to even start to consider possible implications of this
This was a great convo
HAPPENING NOW: @gwlaw.bsky.social's @daniel-solove.bsky.social, one of the world’s leading experts in #privacy law, is sitting down with OTI's @premmtrivedi.bsky.social to discuss privacy and its relationship to power, society and #democracy! bit.ly/4kUZpvQ
💻+🏢 ONLINE & @newamerica.org in D.C.
💻+🏢 ONLINE & @newamerica.org in D.C.
July 25, 2025 at 2:24 PM
This was a great convo
Hard to stress how bad this is. That's 79M medicaid enrollees ethnicities and home addresses. It's not just some abstract privacy issue. It's the kind of thing that can directly deter immigrants from trying to access basic healthcare
BREAKING: ICE officials will gain access to personally identifiable information for all Medicaid enrollees, according to an agreement obtained by the AP.
Trump administration hands over nation's Medicaid enrollee data, including addresses, to ICE
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials will gain access to personally identifiable information for all of the nation’s 79 million Medicaid enrollees.
bit.ly
July 17, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Hard to stress how bad this is. That's 79M medicaid enrollees ethnicities and home addresses. It's not just some abstract privacy issue. It's the kind of thing that can directly deter immigrants from trying to access basic healthcare
🚨 Excited to share an op-ed I wrote for @fortune.com about OpenAI’s recent attempt to partner with Hollywood -- and what it reveals about the future of AI and creative industries.
The good news? AI companies have a chance to see that that the ethical and economic incentives are actually aligned.
The good news? AI companies have a chance to see that that the ethical and economic incentives are actually aligned.
OpenAI can’t afford to ignore Hollywood’s warning
OpenAI’s Hollywood misadventure is reminiscent of an earlier dispute between the media industry and Silicon Valley.
fortune.com
April 16, 2025 at 10:32 PM
🚨 Excited to share an op-ed I wrote for @fortune.com about OpenAI’s recent attempt to partner with Hollywood -- and what it reveals about the future of AI and creative industries.
The good news? AI companies have a chance to see that that the ethical and economic incentives are actually aligned.
The good news? AI companies have a chance to see that that the ethical and economic incentives are actually aligned.
So competition, not monopolies, leads to innovation after all! Thanks Bluesky 🙏
We wrote on Saturday about how Meta is going all-out to meet the threat of Bluesky: wapo.st/3OrYxBj
Today they took another step— finally allowing users to set their default feeds to a chronological “following” feed.
Today they took another step— finally allowing users to set their default feeds to a chronological “following” feed.
November 26, 2024 at 4:11 AM
So competition, not monopolies, leads to innovation after all! Thanks Bluesky 🙏
They’ll keep hiding their attack on research as “defending free speech” and “fighting censorship”. It’s scary, but very effective, and institutions need to figure out a strong counter asap
New podcast: President-elect Donald Trump, Elon Musk, Rep. Jim Jordan and other MAGA Republicans are engaged in an ongoing campaign to target researchers studying disinformation and hate speech. Duke University professor Philip Napoli is documenting their strategy and tactics.
Documenting the Assault on Disinformation and Hate Speech Research | TechPolicy.Press
Philip Napoli is a professor of public policy and director of the DeWitt Wallace Center for Media & Democracy at the Sanford School at Duke University.
www.techpolicy.press
November 25, 2024 at 2:18 PM
They’ll keep hiding their attack on research as “defending free speech” and “fighting censorship”. It’s scary, but very effective, and institutions need to figure out a strong counter asap
As November ends and the holidays approach, it’s officially time to panic about your Spotify Wrapped, and start binge-listening to avoid that one embarrassing artist in your top 5
November 25, 2024 at 2:06 PM
As November ends and the holidays approach, it’s officially time to panic about your Spotify Wrapped, and start binge-listening to avoid that one embarrassing artist in your top 5