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The Brookings Institution's AI and Emerging Technology Initiative is a major policy research hub shaping AI governance frameworks, making it relevant to AI safety through its focus on evidence-based policy, risk mitigation, and governance capacity-building.

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The Brookings Institution's AIET Initiative conducts interdisciplinary research on AI policy, convenes stakeholders across public, corporate, and civic sectors, and produces evidence-based recommendations to help decision-makers govern AI responsibly. It addresses challenges such as the lack of standardized AI testing and validation methods, and aims to maximize AI's benefits while minimizing risks. The initiative coordinates work across multiple Brookings research centers.

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  • Delivers actionable, evidence-based AI policy recommendations grounded in rigorous interdisciplinary research.
  • Addresses the governance gap: 'we cannot govern what we cannot measure,' highlighting the need for AI evaluation standards.
  • Convenes diverse stakeholders from public, corporate, and civic sectors to collaboratively solve AI governance challenges.
  • Coordinates AI research across multiple Brookings centers including the Center for Technology Innovation and Center for Universal Education.
  • Focuses on ensuring AI benefits—productivity, scientific discovery, public services—are realized through deliberate policy action.

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 The Brookings Institution is shaping the future of AI policy—advancing research, collaboration, and institutional innovation to meet the moment. Through its Artificial Intelligence and Emerging Technology Initiative, Brookings delivers actionable insights grounded in rigorous, interdisciplinary scholarship; convenes diverse stakeholders to solve complex challenges; and builds capacity to use AI tools that elevate research and inform decision-making.   

 
 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 

 
 
 

 
 
 
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 Brookings envisions a future where innovations in AI and emerging technologies serve humanity’s highest aspirations, promote global prosperity, and strengthen democratic institutions   

 The future of AI is not inevitable. Artificial intelligence is transforming how we work, learn, govern, and organize economies. But its rapid evolution often outpaces our ability to understand its full impact. Leaders face unprecedented challenges in building governance frameworks, while organizations must make critical decisions amid uncertainty. The lack of standardized methods to test, validate, and monitor AI systems across their lifecycle only deepens the complexity.   

 Brookings is shaping the path forward. Brookings is guiding this transformation by engaging leaders across public, corporate, and civic sectors. Through rigorous research and collaborative problem-solving, we deliver evidence-based policy recommendations to help society harness AI’s benefits while minimizing its risks. 

 

 
 

 

 
 
 
 
 
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 To help leaders address their most pressing policy challenges Brookings conducts forward-thinking AI-related research and produces actionable recommendations through rigorous, interdisciplinary analysis and insights . Leaders demand creative approaches to research and frontier thinking to stay ahead of the technology curve. This imperative drives a research agenda about AI and its limitations, capabilities, and impacts, even as they remain empirically unverifiable. This 

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