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about thoughts on ai policy thoughts on ai policy subscribe sign in home archive about what s this blog about this blog explores the implications of ai tech on society and policy making we unpack various topics including social media ai supply chains ai accountability and more our goal is to provide insights that can meaningfully contribute to ongoing conversations on ai and to reach any interested reader regardless of their background subscribe to stay up to date what have we posted so far we have four separate series described below series 1 social media social media is one of the primary sources of information for people worldwide in this series we pose and answer lingering questions about social media including should social media be regulated read here what are the current approaches and roadblocks to regulating social media read here why can t social media be regulated like radio or tv read here what can we learn from how the u s regulated newspapers financial brokers tobacco companies and public utilities read here read about the series series 2 on ai deployment as ai moves from computer science labs into the real world what challenges will we face in this series we address various topics and concerns such as recent advances in ai have garnered a lot of attention and we should carefully consider how ai is deployed into society read our first post due to the advent of large generative ai models such as gpt 4 the ai system we interact with is built from many ai components glued together creating ai supply chains read our second post a few companies such as openai and google dominate the upstream ai market whether or not there is competition or concentration depends on several important factors read our third post ai supply chains already exist we mapped out several of the complex supply chains that are already out there read about our dataset read about the series series 3 public testimonies one of our authors prof aleksander madry has testified before both the u s house and senate we ve posted lightly edited versions of his public testimonies as well as follow up q a read more here read the testimonies series 4 ai accountability transparency ai is a two sided coin while it creates significant value it can also cause significant harm accountability is a necessary ingredient to building trust between ai and the society on which it intervenes and it is only possible with some degree of transparency that is to hold ai developers accountable we need some insight into how their ai systems work in this series computer scientists and lawyers come together to discuss topics in ai accountability transparency introduction to ai accountability transparency series read here making sense of ai risk scores read here hold ai designers accountable how much access is needed to audit an ai system coming soon ensuring an adequate mechanism of relief for ai induced harms coming soon a public health approach to ai regulations lessons from the pharmaceutical industry coming soon read the series who are we we re a group of students and professors from mit and harvard subscribe to thoughts on ai policy a newsletter from mit harvard researchers on regulating ai technologies subscribe people 2026 sarah cen andrew ilyas aleksander madry privacy terms collection notice start your substack get the app substack is the home for great culture this site requires javascript to run correctly please turn on javascript or unblock scripts