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Giovanni Rocco
Communications

Giovanni Rocco

Communications Manager

Former Communications Co-Chair for WorldPride DC 2025; Former Press Secretary and Spokesperson at the U.S. Department of the Interior; Former Senior Communications lead on national political and federal policy teams.

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Research & Publications

IN THE NEWS • 2026

Exclusive | AI policy groups call for OpenAI investigation

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IN THE NEWS • 2026

Exclusive: New national poll finds voters favor guardrails on data centers

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IN THE NEWS • 2026

Lawmakers prepare bill requiring AI ‘kill switch’

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IN THE NEWS • 2026

Who Controls AI—and Who Pays When It Goes Wrong?

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IN THE NEWS • 2026

Over 200 state lawmakers urge Congress to oppose AI preemption in House proposal

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IN THE NEWS • 2026

Congress shouldn’t freeze state AI safeguards

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IN THE NEWS • 2026

Trump’s AI order is a blow against laissez-faire

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IN THE NEWS • 2026

The Ex-Pentagon Chief Sounding the Alarm on AI Weapons — Brad Carson

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IN THE NEWS • 2026

ARI’s Brad Carson Discusses AI at the US-China Summit

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IN THE NEWS • 2026

Majority of Republicans support mandatory AI testing: Poll

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IN THE NEWS • 2026

AI labs should pass safety review to get US government contracts, group says

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IN THE NEWS • 2026

Experts call for halt of AI chip exports to China after White House distillation warning

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IN THE NEWS • 2026

Exclusive: Faith leaders urge Congress to limit AI weapons

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IN THE NEWS • 2026

How the AI Framework Breaks Trump’s Promise to Kids, Artists and Communities

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IN THE NEWS • 2026

A policy gap is threatening the Pentagon’s AI innovation pipeline

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IN THE NEWS • 2026

AI Needs Serious Regulation & Serious Regulators

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IN THE NEWS • 2026

Online liability shield still a lightning rod after 30 years

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IN THE NEWS • 2026

Former Military Officials, Academics, and Tech Policy Leaders Denounce Pentagon’s Tactics Against Anthropic

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IN THE NEWS • 2026

GOP state lawmakers urge White House to halt efforts to block state AI laws

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IN THE NEWS • 2026

Trump Moves to Cut Anthropic From Federal Agency Work

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IN THE NEWS • 2026

AI Could Make The World ‘Unrecognizable’ In 5 Years

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IN THE NEWS • 2026

The Law That Shields Social Media From Accountability

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IN THE NEWS • 2026

These Rural Americans Are Trying to Hold Back the Tide of AI

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IN THE NEWS • 2026

Brad Carson’s latest role puts him in the fight over AI

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RESEARCH • 2026

Competitive Compliance: Why Uniform Screening Standards Support Innovation and Thwart Regulatory Capture 

This report finds that mandatory gene synthesis screening is a necessary, cost-effective biosecurity safeguard that closes a critical federal gap, strengthens market integrity, and can be implemented with minimal burden or risk of regulatory capture.

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