June 2022

As artificial intelligence moves from experimentation into everyday systems, governments and courts struggle to define boundaries. Commercial tools like GitHub Copilot are turning AI into a paid utility for developers, reshaping how code is written and maintained. At the same time, defence agencies are trying to formalise ideas of “responsible AI,” with the Pentagon outlining principles meant to guide military use beyond slogans. Legal and political tensions are sharpening elsewhere: UK courts have ruled that AI cannot be listed as an inventor, and European lawmakers are debating which AI applications should be banned outright. Cultural responses sit alongside policy fights, with artists and writers exploring how AI alters human expression, creativity, and authorship. Together, these pieces show AI becoming harder to ignore — embedded in work, regulated by law, argued over in politics, and questioned in art — even as agreement on its limits remains elusive. That is June 2022 in AI.