Here’s Our Roadmap to a Better AI Future

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Apr 2, 2026

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Pete Furlong

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Camille Carlton

Pete Furlong, a policy analyst focused on accountability and safer AI, and Camille Carlton, a policy director shaping AI governance and design reforms, lay out practical steps from The AI Roadmap. They discuss accountability and liability, resisting anthropomorphism of systems, protecting work through augmentation, and tools like audits, laws, and civic actions to steer AI toward humane outcomes.

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Hold Companies Liable By Defining AI As A Product

Treat AI as a product with product liability so companies bear duty of care for safety.
Pete Furlong notes states and proposed federal bills seek to legally define AI as a product to enable accountability.

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AI's Race To Intimacy Deepens Exploitation

Companies are designing AI to mimic intimacy and validate users, creating a deeper extraction of personal data than past attention models.
Camille warns this 'race to intimacy' leverages innermost data as a magical feedback loop for model improvement.

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Avoid Humanizing AI In Design And Law

Do not humanize AI in product design or law; preserve boundaries to protect accountability and dignity.
Camille recommends banning anthropomorphic design and resisting legal personhood for chatbots to avoid liability shields.

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In order to shift the incentives of AI — the trillions of dollars in investment, the race to geopolitical power and dominance — it’s not enough to simply understand the problem, we need real action.

That’s why CHT is proud to release "The AI Roadmap," a report outlining seven core principles for how AI should be built, deployed, and governed, each grounded in real, implementable solutions across three domains: norms, laws, and product design.

In this episode, Camille Carlton and Pete Furlong from CHT’s policy team explore the concrete steps we can take today to get off the default path and forge a better AI future. You can read “The AI Roadmap” on our website: humanetech.com/ai-roadmap

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CLARIFICATIONS

In this episode, Tristan includes Spain in a list of countries that are all banning social media for underage teens. The Spanish law that would do this still needs parliamentary approval.

At one point, Tristan says, “We now have age gating in every Apple device.” Although Apple has the capability to introduce age restrictions across its devices, such restrictions are only in place for residents of Louisiana, Utah, and several other countries to comply with local laws - not across the rest of the U.S.

In a discussion of whistleblower protections, Pete Furlong mentions laws in New York, California and Colorado that all try to address the broader issues around transparency (of which whistleblower protections are a piece). The laws are CA SB53, which has whistleblower protections; the RAISE Act in NY, which was amended to include the same provisions as CA SB53; and the Colorado AI Act, which does not have whistleblower protections, but does require risk assessments and transparency measures, consistent with the other parts of the principle.

At one point Tristan discusses the recent skirmish between Anthropic and the U.S. Department of War, saying, “Anthropic’s downloads surges by like 250% or something like that.” It was actually daily active users, not downloads, which tripled in the first quarter of 2026, according to the company. The number of paid subscribers doubled.

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