Schedule
Slides are posted as each lecture is delivered. Reading lists live on the lecture pages and may be updated up until two weeks before a lecture.
| Date | Lecture | Slides | Deadlines |
|---|---|---|---|
| Course Introduction | |||
| Wed, Sep 23 | 1 Introduction: Methodological Approaches & Competing Visions of the AI Transition | [slides] | |
| Technical Foundations | |||
| Mon, Sep 28 | 2 Technical Foundations & Lessons from the History of Governing Frontier Technology | [slides] | |
| Wed, Sep 30 | 3 The Problem of AI Agents & Multi-Agent Dynamics | [slides] | |
| Thu/Fri | Section | ||
| Mon, Oct 5 | 4 AI Evaluations | ||
| Individual Risks | |||
| Wed, Oct 7 | 5 Bias, Discrimination, and Fairness | ||
| Thu/Fri | Section | ||
| Mon, Oct 12 | 6 AI, Copyright, Creativity & Privacy | ||
| Societal Risk | |||
| Wed, Oct 14 | 7 AI Harms: Defamation & Mental Health | Milestone 1 due Fri Oct 16 | |
| Thu/Fri | Section | ||
| Mon, Oct 19 | 8 AI & Democracy | Law paper outline due Mon Oct 19 | |
| Wed, Oct 21 | 9 AI Infrastructure & the Environment | Public comment due Fri Oct 23 | |
| Thu/Fri | Section | ||
| Mon, Oct 26 | 10 Existential Risks & Benefits, AGI, Autonomous R&D, CBRN | ||
| National & International Approaches to AI Governance | |||
| Wed, Oct 28 | 11 EU Law and Policy | Milestone 2 due Fri Oct 30 | |
| Thu/Fri | Section | ||
| Mon, Nov 2 | 12 Federal & State-Level US Law and Policy | ||
| Wed, Nov 4 | 13 Rest of the World Approaches to AI Governance | Milestone 3 due Fri Nov 6 | |
| Thu/Fri | Section | ||
| Mon, Nov 9 | 14 Geopolitics and Global AI Governance | ||
| The AI Economy | |||
| Wed, Nov 11 | 15 The AI Economy: Competition, Open Models, & Antitrust | ||
| Thu/Fri | Section | ||
| Mon, Nov 16 | 16 The AI Economy: The Future of Labor | Law R-credit draft due Mon Nov 16 | |
| Living with AI | |||
| Wed, Nov 18 | 17 What Does It Mean to Be Human in an AI Age? | ||
| Thu/Fri | Section | ||
| Fall break — no class | |||
| Mon, Nov 30 | 18 TBD | ||
| Outlook | |||
| Wed, Dec 2 | 19 The Future of AI Governance | Milestone 4 due Fri Dec 4Law paper due Sun Jan 3 | |
| Thu/Fri | Section | ||