AI policy

AI policy is the set of legal and regulatory instruments — export controls, liability rules, safety standards, compute thresholds, licensing regimes — that states and international bodies use to shape how AI is developed and deployed. It matters because capability advances outpace the institutions designed to handle their consequences. The hard part is jurisdictional: a rule imposed by one government shifts activity elsewhere rather than reducing it, so policy that works has to be durable under regulatory arbitrage. The field sits at the intersection of technical fact and political economy, and the two rarely move at the same speed.