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AI Policy & Governance

The race to regulate and future directions

Can governance keep up without becoming either theatre or a brake controlled by incumbents?

Students compare the EU risk-based regime, U.S. executive and state approaches, international safety coordination, standards, procurement, enforcement, and institutional capacity.

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Before class

Map your capstone system to the EU AI Act and one non-EU governance instrument. Flag every claim that depends on implementation guidance.

After class

Write the one-page communiqué from your delegation and name the concession that made agreement possible.

The promise

By the end of this room…

01Map an AI use to a regulatory obligation and enforcement institution.
02Compare risk regulation, transparency duties, liability, standards, and procurement.
03Apply Collingridge's dilemma and the Brussels Effect to current evidence.
04Negotiate governance under geopolitical and capacity constraints.

Why this week now

Signals, not scene-setting.

The central question has moved from enactment to implementation, standards, institutional capacity, litigation, and rollback.

The U.S. federal approach is built heavily through executive action, procurement, infrastructure policy, and conflict with states.

International safety reports can create a shared evidence base without resolving competing interests or enforcement authority.

Run of show

Provoke → frame → work → argue → synthesize.

Open student room ↗

0:00
provocation
Commit before the concepts
Which governance instrument is most likely to change an AI product in practice?
Live activity · week 12 opening
0:15
frame
The comparative governance map
The central question has moved from enactment to implementation, standards, institutional capacity, litigation, and rollback.
0:45
discussion
Reading tension
Student leaders present the assigned readings as a clash of defensible positions, then moderate questions that expose the hidden assumptions.
1:10
frame
Enforcement is the product
The U.S. federal approach is built heavily through executive action, procurement, infrastructure policy, and conflict with states.
1:35
break
Break
Ten minutes. Leave the room's unresolved question visible.
1:45
forensics
EU AI Act implementation stress test
Role-based groups work the anchor case through technical, legal, stakeholder, and normative lenses.
Deliverable · A two-minute finding with evidence, uncertainty, and an actionable remedy.Live activity · week 12 forensics
2:25
controversy
Global AI Accord six-delegation simulation
Assigned positions, side-switch, and a joint recommendation that names the value or stakeholder it leaves exposed.
Live activity · week 12 controversy
2:50
synthesis
Re-vote and leave a trace
Repeat the opening vote, inspect what moved, and submit the strongest argument you still reject.
Live activity · week 12 exit