OUR MISSION

Securing benefits and managing risks from advanced AI

Who we are

The Institute for AI Policy and Strategy (IAPS) is a think tank of aspiring wonks working to understand and navigate the transformative potential of advanced AI. Our mission is to identify and promote strategies that maximize the benefits of AI for society and develop thoughtful solutions to minimize its risks. We aim to be humble yet purposeful: we’re all having to learn about AI very fast, and we’d love it if you could join us in figuring out what the future holds together.

What we do

Advanced AI systems pose both immense opportunities and complex challenges. Realizing the potential of advanced AI while also navigating its risks requires thoughtful, technical work that recognizes both the scale and the uncertainty of this transformative technology. IAPS works to secure these benefits, anticipate these risks, and meet them with forward-looking proposals.

We:

  • Conduct policy research, looking over the horizon to identify policy proposals that are actionable today but relevant tomorrow, and

  • Cultivate policy talent, forging a community of researchers and practitioners who are thoughtful about uncertainty but able to get things done.

Across all our work, intellectual independence is a core value; we are nonpartisan and do not accept funding from for-profit organizations.

Read more about our funding and intellectual independence policy here.

Our focus areas

Policy and standards

We identify concrete interventions that could improve the safety, security, and governance of advanced AI systems that could be implemented through regulation, standards, or voluntary commitments from AI companies. In our work, we draw on lessons from cybersecurity and cyber policy, and high-stakes and safety-critical industries.

Compute governance

We seek to establish a firmer empirical and theoretical grounding for the fledgling field of compute governance, inform ongoing policy processes and debates, and develop more concrete technical and policy proposals. We are focused on understanding the impacts and limitations of existing compute-related US export controls, investigating hardware-enabled governance mechanisms, and researching what changes to export controls or their enforcement may be feasible and beneficial.

International governance and China

We seek to improve decisions at the intersection of AI governance and the international system. We are interested in international governance for advanced AI, China-West relations concerning AI, and relevant technical and policy developments within China.