OUR MISSION
Understanding and managing risks from advanced AI systems
Who we are
The Institute for AI Policy and Strategy (IAPS) is a remote-first think tank of aspiring wonks trying to figure out what risks from advanced AI might matter most and anticipate them with forward-thinking solutions. 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 tackling these risks together.
Our work covers three areas: AI policy and standards, compute governance, and international governance and China.
What we do
Advanced AI systems pose risks that are complex and costly to mitigate, and we need thoughtful, technical work that recognizes both the scale of these potential risks and the uncertainties around them. IAPS works to anticipate these risks and meet them with forward-looking solutions.
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.