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Advancing Science- and Evidence-based AI Policy

Effectively steering outcomes for and through AI will require thoughtful, evidence-based policy development. Though it may seem self-evident that evidence should inform policy, this is far from inevitable in the inherently messy policy process.

by Rishi Bommasani, Sanjeev Arora, Jennifer Chayes, Yejin Choi, Mariano-Florentino (Tino) Cuéllar, Li Fei-Fei, Daniel E. Ho, Dan Jurafsky, Sanmi Koyejo, Hima Lakkaraju, Arvind Narayanan, Alondra Nelson, Emma Pierson, Joelle Pineau, Scott Singer, Gaël Varoquaux, Suresh Venkatasubramanian, Ion Stoica, Percy Liang, and Dawn Song
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 on July 31, 2025
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