The Foundations of AI Governance: From Systems to Policy

Harvard HKS

AI systems are increasingly deployed into high-stakes domains, raising urgent questions about how they should be governed, by whom, and through what combination of legal, technical, and institutional mechanisms. Governing AI requires reasoning across disciplines that rarely speak to one another: the technical characteristics of how models are trained and evaluated, the legal and regulatory instruments meant to oversee them, the economic and geopolitical forces shaping their development, and…