Artificial Intelligence

Artificial intelligence now touches how loans get approved, how job applications get screened, how the military plans operations, and how everyday apps decide what to show you. Because the technology moves faster than the laws written around it, much of the government’s work in this space involves figuring out which existing rules apply, where new ones are needed, and who has the authority to write them. No single agency owns AI policy; instead, oversight is spread across regulators, courts, and lawmakers who are all working out the same basic questions from different angles.

Setting the rules of the road. A large share of the debate centers on what limits, if any, should apply to companies building and deploying AI systems, and which parts of government have the power to set them. AI Governance and Regulation covers how agencies, Congress, and international bodies are approaching oversight, including national security reviews of AI investment and questions about protecting vulnerable users online.

Judging right from wrong. Beyond legal authority, there’s the harder question of what responsible AI development actually looks like. AI Ethics and Responsible AI looks at how institutions, including the military, try to balance the power of these tools against the principles meant to constrain their use.

When machines make the call. AI increasingly makes or shapes decisions that used to involve a person, from rental applications to hiring. Automated Decision-making explains how laws about discrimination, fairness, and due process apply when an algorithm is doing the deciding.

The government as customer. Federal, state, and local agencies are also adopting AI themselves, for everything from fraud detection to public services. Government Use of AI covers how public agencies acquire and deploy these tools, including arrangements where technology companies offer their systems to government at little or no cost.