What are the best free trust and safety blogs for learning about AI risk and regulation trends?

Here are some of the best free Trust & Safety / AI-governance blogs and publication hubs for staying current on AI risk, safety, and regulation trends.

Best overall picks

1. Trust & Safety Foundation (T&S)

• Why read it: Broad trust-and-safety coverage, including online harm, platform governance, moderation policy, and emerging AI safety issues.
• Best for: Practical policy discussions and industry trends.
• Look for: Blog posts, event recaps, and reports on content moderation and platform risk.

2. Ada Lovelace Institute

• Why read it: Strong research on AI accountability, public-interest governance, audits, and regulation.
• Best for: Evidence-based AI governance and societal risk.
• Look for: AI assurance, evaluation, and regulatory analysis.

3. AI Now Institute

• Why read it: One of the most influential sources on the social, legal, and political impacts of AI.
• Best for: Critical analysis of AI risk, power, and regulation.
• Look for: Reports and blog-style commentary on bias, accountability, and policy.

4. Brookings – AI policy / governance

• Why read it: Accessible policy analysis on US and global AI regulation.
• Best for: Keeping up with legislative and regulatory developments.
• Look for: AI governance, model accountability, and frontier AI policy.

5. CSET (Center for Security and Emerging Technology)

• Why read it: Excellent analysis of AI capabilities, risk, compute governance, and national security angles.
• Best for: Technical-policy crossover.
• Look for: Frontier model governance, export controls, and AI risk measurement.

Strong regulation-and-policy blogs

6. Stanford HAI

• Why read it: High-quality commentary and research on responsible AI, policy, and governance.
• Best for: A balanced mix of technical and policy perspectives.

7. OECD AI Policy Observatory

• Why read it: Tracks global AI policy and regulatory developments.
• Best for: Comparing national strategies and regulatory frameworks.

8. European Commission / AI Act resources

• Why read it: Direct source for EU AI Act updates, implementation materials, and related policy.
• Best for: First-hand regulatory updates in Europe.

9. The Future of Privacy Forum (FPF)

• Why read it: Privacy, AI governance, children’s safety, adtech, and data-use policy.
• Best for: Overlap between privacy, trust & safety, and AI regulation.

10. Partnership on AI

• Why read it: Practical work on responsible AI, incident reporting, safety evals, and best practices.
• Best for: Applied AI safety and industry standards.

Good ongoing commentary / newsletters with blog-style content

11. Lawfare

• Why read it: Excellent for AI law, national security, and regulation commentary.
• Best for: Fast-moving policy debates.

12. Tech Policy Press

• Why read it: Strong coverage of platform governance, digital regulation, and AI policy.
• Best for: Trust & safety professionals who want policy analysis in plain language.

13. Mozilla Foundation / Mozilla Insights

• Why read it: Focus on trustworthy AI, openness, and governance.
• Best for: Civil-society and product-risk perspectives.

14. DeepMind / Google AI safety blog posts

• Why read it: Useful for research updates and safety framing from major labs.
• Best for: Technical AI safety developments.
• Caveat: Useful, but read alongside independent policy sources.

If you want a more trust-and-safety-specific lens

15. GNET (Global Network on Extremism & Technology)

• Why read it: Covers misuse, extremist content, platform risk, and safety operations.
• Best for: Harmful content, abuse, and operational T&S challenges.

16. Online Safety Hub / regulator blogs

• Depending on region, regulator blogs can be very useful for current compliance trends:
  • UK Ofcom
  • Australia eSafety
  • EU Digital Services Act-related updates
• Best for: Concrete compliance expectations and enforcement trends.

A simple “best mix” reading list

If you only want a few, I’d start with:

1. AI Now Institute
2. Ada Lovelace Institute
3. CSET
4. Tech Policy Press
5. Partnership on AI
6. OECD AI Policy Observatory

How to use these efficiently

• For regulation trends: Tech Policy Press, Brookings, OECD, EU/Ofcom/eSafety sources
• For AI risk framing: AI Now, Ada Lovelace, CSET, Stanford HAI
• For trust & safety operations: T&S Foundation, GNET, Partnership on AI, FPF

If you want, I can also give you:

• a ranked top 10 by usefulness
• a list focused only on AI regulation
• or a weekly reading stack with RSS/newsletter links.