The Center for Security and Emerging Technology is partnering with top universities to expand AGORA, its living collection of 1,000+ AI-related laws, regulations, and standards. In addition to continuing the partnership with Purdue University’s Governance and Responsible AI Lab (GRAIL), the collaboration will bring in teams from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s AI Risk Initiative and Carnegie Mellon University’s EncyclopAIdia team.

This collaboration will increase the capabilities and scope of AGORA, or the AI Governance and Regulatory Archive—a publicly-available tool and dataset from CSET’s Emerging Technology Observatory. Since its launch in 2024, AGORA has been foundational to AI governance research and decision-making and has been leveraged by researchers, practitioners, and policymakers in the U.S., the EU, and beyond. 

“I’m excited these teams are coming together to ensure AGORA is a sustained and useful resource for researchers, policymakers, and journalists shaping how AI is implemented and governed,” said Catherine Aiken, director of data science and research at CSET. 

AGORA is an exploration and analysis tool for AI-relevant laws, regulations, standards, and other governance documents from the United States and around the world. The public dataset and tool’s interface include plain-English summaries, detailed metadata, thematic tags, filters, and full text for hundreds of AI-focused laws and policies, with new data being added continuously. 

CSET will continue to host the interface as well as the data infrastructure. GRAIL, MIT AI Risk Initiative, and Carnegie Mellon University will contribute to document sourcing, screening, and annotation to expand AGORA’s coverage, improve and expedite document processing, enhance usability, and publish analysis and tools using AGORA.

“Each research team brings valuable expertise and perspectives. Combining our efforts will help us expand coverage, improve how quickly and efficiently we can add new documents, and make the tool an even more valuable public resource for research and decision-making,” said Aiken.

“This project has generated a community of dedicated students and researchers. For AGORA to be the definitive AI policy archive, we need to keep that momentum going by partnering with the most talented and passionate teams. Growing interest from users and collaborators has empowered us to combine efforts. We’ll be able to provide stronger tools, richer insights, and better coverage of more types of documents from around the world,” said Daniel Schiff, co-director of GRAIL and assistant professor of technology policy at Purdue University.