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What’s Next in AI Governance?

Looking Ahead to 2025

In this event, we discussed potential forecasts for AI governance efforts around the world in 2025. We also provided an exclusive introduction to AGORA, a new tool designed to help researchers and the public examine AI-relevant laws, regulations, and standards.

With a new presidential administration in the United States and an evolving international technology environment, what might the next year of AI governance and regulation have in store? We held a wide-ranging discussion on this question with:

  • Matt Sheehan, Fellow, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace 
  • Daniel Schiff, Assistant Professor and Co-Director, Governance and Responsible AI Lab (GRAIL), Purdue University
  • Mina Narayanan, Research Analyst, Center for Security and Emerging Technology
  • Zachary Arnold, Analytic Lead, Emerging Technology Observatory (moderator)

The webinar included an exclusive introduction to AGORA, the latest public resource from CSET’s Emerging Technology Observatory. Launched on December 11, AGORA (AI Governance and Regulatory Archive) is a living collection of AI-relevant laws, regulations, standards, and other governance documents from the United States and around the world. AGORA includes plain-English summaries, full text, thematic tags, and filters to help you quickly discover and analyze key developments in AI governance.

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Participants

Matt Sheehan is a fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, where his research covers global technology issues with a focus on China. His research projects explore China’s artificial intelligence ecosystem, the future of Chinese technology policy, and the role of technology in China’s political economy. Matt is the author of The Transpacific Experiment: How China and California Collaborate and Compete for our Future (Counterpoint Press, 2019). From 2010-2016 Matt lived and worked in China, including as the first China correspondent for the World Post.

After returning from China, Matt worked as a fellow at the Paulson Institute’s think tank, MacroPolo, where he led research on Chinese technology issues. In 2018, he was selected as a finalist for the Young China Watcher of the Year award. His writing has been published by the Atlantic, Bloomberg, Vice, and Wired. His research has been cited by numerous government agencies and media outlets, including the National Security Commission on AI, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and the San Francisco Chronicle. Matt reads, writes, and speaks Mandarin Chinese.

Dr. Daniel Schiff is an Assistant Professor of Technology Policy at Purdue University’s Department of Political Science and the Co-Director of GRAIL, the Governance and Responsible AI Lab. He studies the formal and informal governance of AI through policy and industry, as well as AI’s social and ethical implications. His interdisciplinary and mixed methods research addresses topics such as industry standards and organizational practices for AI ethics, public and elite opinion and influence dynamics in the policy process, the development of social responsibility attitudes amongst future computing and engineering professionals, and the role of the public in governing emerging technologies. At GRAIL, he fosters research collaborations to study AI’s social, policy, and ethical implications. His work also includes the development of interdisciplinary coursework focused on technology, policy, and ethics.

Dr. Schiff served as the founding Responsible AI Lead at JP Morgan Chase & Co. and as Secretary of the IEEE 7010-2020 standard, the first AI ethics industry standard, focused on the impacts of AI on human well-being. Before that, he worked for several years in the non-profit K-12 education sector as the Director of Research, Evaluation, and Planning at the Philadelphia Education Fund. Dr. Schiff studied Philosophy at Princeton University before completing a Master’s in Social Policy at the University of Pennsylvania and PhD in Public Policy from the Georgia Institute of Technology. You can see his work in venues across various disciplines, including Policy Studies Journal, Science and Public Policy, Public Administration, Technology in Society, Review of Policy Research, AI & Society, the International Journal of AI in Education, IEEE Transactions on Technology & Society, the Journal of Engineering Education, the AMA Journal of Medical Ethics, and Nanotechnology.

Mina Narayanan is a Research Analyst at Georgetown University’s Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET). Prior to joining CSET, she worked at the U.S. Department of State in the Bureau of Consular Affairs where she monitored developments and prepared correspondence for international child abduction cases. Previously, she leveraged topic modeling to analyze research portfolios at the National Institute of Nursing Research and helped create a classification scheme with the Open Government Partnership to guide member countries in combating tax evasion. Mina holds a Bachelor of Software Engineering with a Minor in Political Science from Auburn University and a Master of Science in Public Policy and Management from Carnegie Mellon University.

Zachary Arnold is the Analytic Lead for CSET’s Emerging Technology Observatory, responsible for product strategy, research, analytic writing, and user outreach and engagement. He previously served as a CSET research fellow, publishing widely cited analyses on AI safety, cross-border investment, research and development, and immigration, and as a fellow with the United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations. His writing on technology and policy issues has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, Foreign Affairs, Nature, MIT Technology Review, Lawfare, and other leading outlets. He received a J.D. from Yale Law School, where he was an editor of the Yale Law Journal, and an A.B. (summa cum laude) in Social Studies from Harvard University.