Research - Institute for Law & AI

Our research attempts to identify and resolve some of the most important legal and policy questions in the field of AI governance. This page contains a collection of our public-facing reports, academic articles, and working papers.

Our primary focus is on legal research into questions of U.S. law that have the potential to inform AI policy in the United States. We also publish research on international institutions and on key topics in international law. Our current workstreams include:

→ Institutions and Procedures

→ Law & Compute

→ International Regulatory Institutions

→ Liability & Insurance Law

→ AI Agents and the Rule of Law

An overview of our current workstreams and research directions can be found here.

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Chips for Peace: how the U.S. and its allies can lead on safe and beneficial AI

The United States and its democratic allies can lead in AI and use this position to advance global security and prosperity.

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Chips for Peace: how the U.S. and its allies can lead on safe and beneficial AI

Legal considerations for defining “frontier model”

Existing authorities for oversight of frontier AI models

International AI institutions

Computing power and the governance of artificial intelligence

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What should be internationalised in AI governance?

The governance misspecification problem

Legal considerations for defining “frontier model”

Beyond a piecemeal approach: prospects for a framework convention on AI

The future of international scientific assessments of AI’s risks

Existing authorities for oversight of frontier AI models

Chips for Peace: how the U.S. and its allies can lead on safe and beneficial AI

Computing power and the governance of artificial intelligence

Advanced AI governance: a literature review of problems, options, and proposals

Concepts in advanced AI governance: a literature review of key terms and definitions

Open-sourcing highly capable foundation models

International AI institutions

International governance of civilian AI

LawAI’s thoughts on proposed updates to U.S. federal benefit-cost analysis

Re-evaluating GPT-4’s bar exam performance

Algorithmic black swans

Three lines of defense against risks from AI

Value alignment for advanced artificial judicial intelligence

Catastrophic risk review

Catastrophic uncertainty and regulatory impact analysis

What should be internationalised in AI governance?

The governance misspecification problem

Legal considerations for defining “frontier model”

Beyond a piecemeal approach: prospects for a framework convention on AI

The future of international scientific assessments of AI’s risks

Existing authorities for oversight of frontier AI models

Chips for Peace: how the U.S. and its allies can lead on safe and beneficial AI

Computing power and the governance of artificial intelligence

Advanced AI governance: a literature review of problems, options, and proposals

Concepts in advanced AI governance: a literature review of key terms and definitions

Open-sourcing highly capable foundation models

International AI institutions

International governance of civilian AI

LawAI’s thoughts on proposed updates to U.S. federal benefit-cost analysis

Re-evaluating GPT-4’s bar exam performance

Algorithmic black swans

Three lines of defense against risks from AI

Value alignment for advanced artificial judicial intelligence

Catastrophic risk review

Catastrophic uncertainty and regulatory impact analysis