AI governance & policy

How states, labs, and international bodies oversee advanced AI, through regulation, standards, audits, and new institutions.

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Selected papers

3

Must-reads for understanding the field and why it matters for AGI institutions.

  1. The Agentic Web Requires New Normative Infrastructure
    Cameron Pattison, Matthew Boulos, Noam Kolt et al.2026 · Preprint

    Makes the case for laws, norms, and practices that distinguish appropriately delegated agents from malicious automation on the web.

  2. Distributional AGI safety
    Nenad Tomašev, Matija Franklin, Julian Jacobs et al.2025 · Preprint

    Frames the distribution of benefits, risks, and decision power as a central part of AGI safety rather than a downstream policy question.

  3. Regulatory Markets: The Future of AI Governance
    Gillian Hadfield, Jack Clark2023 · Jurimetrics · Peer-reviewed

    Proposes markets for privately supplied regulatory services under democratically set public objectives, aiming to combine accountability with regulatory innovation.

Work in the field

17

Recent work in the field worth knowing.

  1. From Democracies to Autocracies: How AI Systems Enable Authoritarianism by Design
    Jeba Sania, Marta Ziosi, Fazl Barez2026 · Preprint
  2. Legal Infrastructure for Transformative AI Governance
    Gillian Hadfield2026 · PNAS · Peer-reviewed
  3. Racing to Ruin
    Drew Fudenberg, Andrew Koh2026 · Preprint
  4. AGI, Governments, and Free Societies
    Justin B. Bullock, Samuel Hammond, Seb Krier2025 · Springer · Book chapter
  5. AI Governance through Markets
    Philip Moreira Tomei, Rupal Jain, Matija Franklin2025 · Preprint
  6. Characterizing AI Agents for Alignment and Governance
    Atoosa Kasirzadeh, Iason Gabriel2025 · Nature · Peer-reviewed
  7. Incident Analysis for AI Agents
    Carson Ezell, Xavier Roberts-Gaal, Alan Chan2025 · AIES · Peer-reviewed
  8. The Stories We Govern By: AI, Risk, and the Power of Imaginaries
    Ninell Oldenburg, Gleb Papyshev2025 · AIES · Peer-reviewed
  9. Automatic Authorities: Power and AI
    Seth Lazar2024 · MIT Press · Book chapter
  10. Black-Box Access is Insufficient for Rigorous AI Audits
    Stephen Casper, Carson Ezell, Charlotte Siegmann et al.2024 · FAccT · Peer-reviewed
  11. Personhood credentials: Artificial intelligence and the value of privacy-preserving tools to distinguish who is real online
    Steven Adler, Zoë Hitzig, Shrey Jain et al.2024 · Preprint
  12. Robust Technology Regulation
    Andrew Koh, Sivakorn Sanguanmoo2024 · EC · Peer-reviewed
  13. Frontier AI Regulation: Managing Emerging Risks to Public Safety
    Markus Anderljung, Joslyn Barnhart, Anton Korinek et al.2023 · Report
  14. Harms from Increasingly Agentic Algorithmic Systems
    Alan Chan, Rebecca Salganik, Alva Markelius et al.2023 · FAccT · Peer-reviewed
  15. Toward Trustworthy AI Development: Mechanisms for Supporting Verifiable Claims
    Miles Brundage, Shahar Avin, Jasmine Wang et al.2020 · Report
  16. The Role of Cooperation in Responsible AI Development
    Amanda Askell, Miles Brundage, Gillian Hadfield2019 · Preprint
  17. European Union regulations on algorithmic decision-making and a "right to explanation"
    Bryce Goodman, Seth Flaxman2016 · AI Magazine · Peer-reviewed

Foundations

4

Older work that gives background on the field.

  1. Code: And Other Laws of Cyberspace
    Lawrence Lessig1999 · Book
  2. Seeing Like a State
    James C. Scott1998 · Book
  3. Do Artifacts Have Politics?
    Langdon Winner1980 · Daedalus
  4. The Social Control of Technology
    David Collingridge1980 · Book

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