AI Governance

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AI governance examines who sets the rules for AI, how responsibilities are distributed, and how systems can be made accountable across their lifecycles. Approaches include risk-based regulation such as the EU AI Act, standards such as the NIST AI Risk Management Framework, and practical tools including audits, impact assessments, human oversight, incident reporting, runtime monitoring, and governance-as-code. Researchers also study public participation, rights, labor, privacy, and how governance differs across sectors and countries. A central tension is that formal policies and compliance records do not necessarily prove effective control or prevent harm, especially as AI systems become more autonomous and depend on complex supply chains.

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  1. Data Governance for Generative and Agentic AI : Technology, Law, Economics, and Security

    Oct 24, 2026Narayana Darapaneni, Padmaja K, Gnana Chaithra DAI GovernanceAI Agent Governance

  2. Conformance as a Distribution: Delegation Contracts, Error Budgets, and the Allocation of Evaluation Authority in Use-Based AI Regulation

    Oct 23, 2026John deVadossAI GovernanceAI Regulatory Compliance

    InterWork Alliance, Washington, DC

  3. Contestable Agents for Data Governance: Recording Human Stewardship of AI-Generated Metadata Across Structured and Unstructured Systems

    Oct 22, 2026Humza Akhtar, Brian FreemanAI Agent GovernanceAI Governance

    Industry Solutions, MongoDB, Inc. · Advanced Concepts & Capabilities, Trane Technologies

  4. TESSA: A Governance-Oriented Custom GPT for SME Guidance under the EU AI Act: Design, Implementation, and Evaluation

    Oct 22, 2026Chalisa Veesommai Sillberga, Kai-Kristian Kemella, Pekka Sillberga +3AI GovernanceGenerative AI Evaluation

    Tampere University, Faculty of Information Technology and Communication Sciences, Pori, Finland · Boutique Legal Consulting, Helsinki, Finland

  5. Assessing the AI Readiness of Construction Datasets: A Multidimensional Operational Framework

    Oct 18, 2026Xiaoyu Hou, Bo Xiao, Abdolmajid Erfani +2AI Governance

    Department of Civil, Environmental, and Geospatial Engineering, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI. 49931 · Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, WA. 98195 · Department of Applied Computing, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI. 49931

  6. AI Rights with an Off-Switch: Rights-Balancing and Due Process Harmonize AI Rights with AI Safety

    Oct 17, 2026Heather Alexander, Jonathan SimonAI EthicsAI Governance

    Laboratory for the Future of Citizenship. · Université de Montréal / Laboratory for the Future of Citizenship.

  7. Market Incentives for AI Safety Investment

    Oct 15, 2026Nikita TsoyAI SafetyAI Governance

    INSAIT Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski” Sofia, Bulgaria

  8. A Multi-Tiered AI Accessibility Model (MAIAM): Proportionate Access and Capability Limits for Comprehensive Frontier AI Safety

    Oct 14, 2026Chai K. Toh, Vasu Raj JainAI GovernanceAccess Control

    SAFE AI Foundation USA

  9. Welcome to the Age of Agent Ads: Using On-Policy Attacks to Steer Agentic Decisions

    Oct 12, 2026Tim R. Davidson, Marija Šakota, Joshua Joseph +1Adversarial AttacksAI Agent Security

    EPFL · Harvard University

  10. Superintelligence and the Triple Risk of an AI Race

    Oct 12, 2026Matthew Rendall, Max Hellrigel-Holderbaum, Leonard DungAI GovernanceArtificial General Intelligence

  11. Governing Copyright Responsibly in the Era of Generative AI

    Oct 12, 2026D. KochetkovAI GovernanceResponsible AI

    Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS), Leiden University, Leiden, the Netherlands · RUDN University, Moscow, Russia

  12. Transparent Information Flow Modeling for Role-Aware AI Act Assessment

    Oct 12, 2026Mattias Brännström, Themis Dimitra Xanthopoulou, Lili JiangAI GovernanceAlgorithmic Auditing

    Umeå University, Sweden

  13. The Imperishable Record, Forgiveness, and the Future of Criminal Justice

    Oct 11, 2026Mark Fenwick, Paulius Jurcys, Sebastian Porsdam MannAI Governance

    Graduate School of Law, Kyushu University, Japan · Vinted · Vilnius University Law Faculty, Lithuania +2

  14. Probabilistic Sensing, Deterministic Authority: Admitting Model-Produced Observations into Sufficiency-Checked Governance Contracts

    Oct 7, 2026Gaston BesansonAI GovernanceDecision-Making under Uncertainty

    Universidad Torcuato Di Tella

  15. TRACE: A Governance Framework for Measuring Explainability Debt in Production AI Systems

    Oct 7, 2026Harish Kant PathakAI GovernanceAI Accountability

    Independent Researcher

  16. The Handover Problem: Governing Autonomy Transitions in Human-AI Collaboration

    Oct 7, 2026Vicente Pelechano, Antoni Mestre, Manoli Albert +1Human-AI CollaborationAI Governance

    VRAIN, Universitat Politècnica de València, Valencia, Spain · Universitat de València, Valencia, Spain

  17. When Scientific Cognition Is No Longer Scarce

    Oct 7, 2026Nathan DeBardelebenAI-Assisted Scientific ResearchAI Governance

    Los Alamos National Laboratory

  18. Can Power Draw Constrain Covert Compute? Limits of Analogue Verification for AI Governance

    Oct 5, 2026Tom Kimpson, Mauricio Baker, Emlyn GrahamAI GovernanceAlgorithmic Auditing

    School of Mathematics and Statistics, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, Australia · Machine Alignment, Transparency & Security (MATS) · Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK

  19. Watermarking: from Impossibility to Auditable Compliance

    Oct 5, 2026Fernando Delbianco, Fernando Tohmé, Hugo AcciarriText WatermarkingRobust Watermarking

    Departamento de Economía, Universidad Nacional del Sur (UNS), Bahía Blanca, Argentina · Instituto de Matemática de Bahía Blanca (INMABB), CONICET–UNS, Bahía Blanca, Argentina · Departamento de Derecho, Universidad Nacional del Sur (UNS), Bahía Blanca, Argentina

  20. Architecture Without an Architect? Global Governance of Artificial Intelligence in a Divided World

    Oct 1, 2026Simon ChestermanAI Governance

    National University of Singapore

  21. The AI Assessment Sandbox Configurator: A Framework to Support Technical Assessment in AI Regulatory Sandboxes

    Oct 1, 2026Alessio Buscemi, German Castignani, Daniele Pagani +2AI AssuranceAI Governance

    Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST), Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg · University of Luxembourg, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg

  22. The AI Risk Observatory: What Can We Learn from AI Disclosures in Annual Reports About Societal Resilience?

    Oct 1, 2026Bart Jaworski, Andrew SuttonAI Governance

    Independent Researcher.

  23. A Reusable Semantic Web Framework for Evidence-Grounded Fundamental Rights Impact Assessments under the EU AI Act

    Sep 30, 2026Faith Olopade, Delaram Golpayegani, David LewisAI AccountabilityAI Governance

    Trinity College Dublin, Ireland · ADAPT Centre, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland

  24. Designing a Boundary Negotiating Artifact for Collaborative Socio-Technical Sense-Making in AI Regulatory Sandboxes

    Sep 29, 2026Idoia Landa-Oregi, Tom Deckenbrunnen, Alessio Buscemi +2AI Governance

    Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST) · LIST, University of Luxembourg

  25. An Empirical Study and Assessment of EU AI Act Compliance Checkers

    Sep 28, 2026Zhen Tao, Alize Kahraman, Shidong Pan +4AI AssuranceAI Governance

    Technical University of Munich, Germany · New York University, USA · CSIRO’s Data61, Australia

  26. What if automating AI R&D triggers an intelligence explosion?

    Sep 28, 2026Alan Chan, Christoph Winter, Andrew Barto +19AI ControlAI Governance

    GovAI · CASP, University of Cambridge, Institute for Law & AI · University of Massachusetts Amherst +16

  27. Structural Alignment for Reliable Industrial AI: Bridging Physical Reality, Data, Models, and Human Intent

    Sep 28, 2026Lizhi Xiao, Sihong Wu, Victoria Xiao +5AI AlignmentAI Governance

  28. RAGWarrant: Evidence-Preserving Governance for RAG Policy Promotion Under Quality, Cost, Latency, and Risk Constraints

    Sep 28, 2026Richard Krueger, Lucas Krause, Zach PocquetteRetrieval-Augmented GenerationRAG Evaluation

    Independent open-source research project

  29. Who Governs Data in the AI Era? A Computational Analysis of the U.S. Privacy Workforce in Job Postings

    Sep 25, 2026Ramazan Yener, Muhammad Hassan, Masooda BashirAI and LaborAI Governance

    University of Illinois Urbana- Champaign, USA

  30. "AI is (not) the new...": A Diagnostic Analogy Framework for Generative AI's Cultural Impacts

    Sep 25, 2026Rida Qadri, Vinodkumar Prabhakaran, Remi DentonAI Governance

    Google Research