Week 4 — AI Governance
We’ll step back from the models themselves and look at the people and institutions shaping how advanced AI gets built and deployed. We’ll discuss governance proposals, the tradeoffs behind them, and practical ways students can keep learning or contribute after the fellowship.
Core readings
- A simple solution to regulate AI (The Hill, July 2023) ↗
- We're Not Ready for AI Liability (AI Frontiers, June 2025) ↗
- Computing Power and the Governance of AI (GovAI, Feb 2024) ↗
- How US Export Controls Have (and Haven't) Curbed Chinese AI (AI Frontiers, July 2025) (est. 14m) ↗
- The AI regulator's toolbox: A list of concrete AI governance practices (Adam Jones, Aug 2024) (est. 19m) ↗
Recommended readings
- Securing Model Weights (RAND, 2024) ↗
- The Finalized EU AI Act: Implications and Insights (Hoffmann, CSET, 2024) ↗
- China's AI Policy at the Crossroads: Balancing Development and Control in the DeepSeek Era (Sheehan, Carnegie, 2025) ↗
- SB 53 (California Legislature, 2025) ↗
- Is China serious about AI safety? (Carnegie, 2024) ↗
- The State of State AI Law (Carnegie, 2025) ↗
- Frontier AI Regulation: Managing Emerging Risks to Public Safety (Anderljung et al., 2023) ↗
- International Institutions for Advanced AI (Ho et al., 2023) ↗
- If-Then Commitments for AI Risk Reduction (Carnegie, 2024) ↗
- Verifying International Agreements on AI (RAND, 2024) ↗
- The Case for AI Liability (AI Frontiers, 2024) ↗
- Tort Law as a Tool for Mitigating Catastrophic Risk from AI (Weil, 2024) ↗
Optional readings
- Trump's Plan for AI: Recapping the White House's AI Action Plan (Friedland, CSET, 2025) ↗
- AI Safety under the EU AI Code of Practice — A New Global Standard? (Hoffmann, CSET, 2025) ↗
- AISI Frontier AI Trends Report 2025 (UK AI Security Institute, 2025) ↗
- Common Elements of Frontier AI Safety Policies (METR, 2025) ↗
- The AI Governance Arms Race: From Summit Pageantry to Progress? (Renda, Carnegie, 2024) ↗
- Superintelligence Strategy: Expert Version (Hendrycks, Schmidt, & Wang, 2025) ↗
- Seeking Stability in the Competition for AI Advantage (Mazarr, RAND, 2025) ↗
- Oversight for Frontier AI through a KYC Scheme for Compute Providers (Egan & Heim, GovAI, 2023) ↗
- Secure, Governable Chips (Aarne, Fist, & Withers, CNAS/IAPS, 2024) ↗
- Anthropic's RSP v3.0: How it Works, What's Changed, and Some Reflections (GovAI, 2025) ↗
- Regulatory Markets (Hadfield & Clark, 2023) ↗
- Situational Awareness: Lock Down the Labs (Aschenbrenner, 2024) ↗
- A National Center for Advanced AI Reliability and Security (FAS, 2024) ↗
- U.S. Tort Liability for Large-Scale AI Damages: A Primer (Ramakrishnan et al., RAND, 2024) ↗
- Tort Law and Frontier AI Governance (van der Merwe, Ramakrishnan, & Anderljung, Lawfare, 2024) ↗
- Tort Law Should Be the Centerpiece of AI Governance (Weil, Lawfare, 2024) ↗