AI Governance

The Theia Institute attended a session on closing the AI data gap for policy — drawing on insights from the Stanford HAI AI Index — hosted in dialogue with the Brookings Institution.

The Theia Institute attended an MIT CSAIL session on the challenges of AI deployment and what it takes to turn strategy into strategic impact.

The Theia Institute is engaging with the AI for Good community — the UN-affiliated, ITU-led platform connecting policymakers, researchers, and institutions advancing responsible AI worldwide.

Over the past few years, we contributed public input to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) as it shaped key pieces of the nation’s AI policy landscape—ensuring that inventors, practitioners, and the public are served by guidance that is practical, accountable, and human-centered.

▫️Not every problem needs an LLM. ▫️Not every solution demands full autonomy. ▫️Yet, every enterprise adopting AI must first answer one question: How much control are we prepared to give up, and under what conditions? Too often, companies chase usecases before defining accountability. That’s backwards Usecases only matter once governance is in place. Autonomy is not a milestone. It’s a dial, and risk appetite determines how far that dial turns. ▫️Human-led AI supports, but hu

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