A growing collection of sites, blogs, tools, and references on AI governance, safety, evaluations, and the law.
official bodies
- UK - AI Security Institute (AISI) - research directorate to inform governance decision-making
- UK - Incubator for AI
- European AI Office
- US - National Institute of Standards & Technology - see their AI risk management framework
- US - Center for AI Standards & Innovation (CAISI)
- AU - National AI Centre
- AU - AI Safety Institute
- OECD Artificial Intelligence Policy Observatory
governance and research
- Oxford Martin AIGI
- Cambridge University’s Programme on AI Science & Policy
- GovAI
- Center on Long-Term Risk
- Forethought
- Ada Lovelace Institute
- AU - Centre for AI & Digital Ethics - University of Melbourne
- AU - Good Ancestors
- AU - Centre for AI, trust & governance - University of Sydney
- LawZero - NPO founded by Yoshua Bengio
- Harvard Computational Policy Lab
- Princeton Language+Law, Artificial Intelligence, & Society (POLARIS) Lab
- Guidelight AI Standards
- China - Concordia AI - Beijing-based social enterprise (also does risk monitoring and evals)
- EAAMO (Equity and Access in Algorithms, Mechanisms, & Optimization)
evaluations
- Model Evaluation and Threat Research (METR)
- Epoch AI
- AI Verification & Evaluation Research Institute (AVERI)
- Apollo Research
technical safety research
- DeepMind Safety Research
- Anthropic Research
- Frontier Model Forum
- Machine Intelligence Research Institute (MIRI)
- Redwood Research
- Center for AI Safety (CAIS)
law
- Institute for Law & AI
- CLAIR — Center for Law & AI Risk - research about how law can reduce catastrophic and existential risk from advanced artificial intelligence
- Lawfare
AI blogs
- LessWrong
- Stanford Law School
- UK’s SovereignAI
- Markus Anderljung
- Dean W. Ball
- Zvi Mowshowitz
- Jack Clark
- Ajeya Cotra
- Daniel Kokotajlo
- Hollis Robbins - AI and education
- Maggie Appleton - design and interfacing with computers
- Simon Willison - software development and AI
blogs by lawyers, law professors, and those adjacent
- Matthew Butterick
- Umar Butler
- Damien Charlotin
- Niccolò Ridi
- Tris Sherliker
- James Grimmelmann
- David Anthony Colarusso
- Scott Young
- prinz
databases
- MIT AI Risk Initiative - 1,700 AI risks
- AI Incident Database - records harms and near harms
- AI Hallucination Cases Database - LLM hallucinations in legal cases
- AI Laws & Regulations | DLA Piper
- The Human Line Project - AI-induced psychological harm
- OECD AI Incidents Monitor
- Stanford University AI Index
- George Washington University – Database of AI Litigation
- ChatGPTIsEatingtheWorld - tracking copyright cases
- LegalTech resources
- Law Library Victoria - hallucinations in case law
legal benchmarks
- Stanford’s LegalBench
- prinzbench - legal research & analysis
- harvey-labs - large range of legal work tasks
- Legal Hallucination Detection Benchmark
- Massive Legal Embedding Benchmark - Isaacus
- Legal AI Benchmarking
news
- Financial Times | Artificial intelligence - coverage of companies and regulation
usecases and projects for AI in law
- Detecting Deceptive Behavior in Court Hearings and Cross-Examinations - Stanford Law School
- Github repository for LLMs in law
- AI assisted moot courts
conferences
- Geneva AI Summit 2027 - 21-22 June 2027 following Bletchley Park (2023), Seoul (2024), Paris (2025), New Delhi (2026)
- NeurIPS - Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems - 6-12 December 2026 (Sydney, Australia)
- ICLR - International Conference on Learning Representations - 23-27 April 2026 (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
- ICML - International Conference on Machine Learning - 6-11 July 2026 (Seoul, South Korea)
- AAAI - Association for the Advancement of AI - 6-23 February 2027 (Montreal, Canada)
- IAAIL - International Association for AI & Law - 8-12 June 2026 (Singapore)
- IJCAI - International Joint Conference on AI - 15-21 August 2026 (Bremen, Germany)
- ECAI - European Conference on AI - joint with IJCAI in 2026
- JURIX - International Conference on Legal Knowledge & Information Systems - 8-10 December 2026 (Toulouse, France)
- IASEAI - International Association for Safe & Ethical AI - 9-12 February 2027 (Paris, France) - also see their affiliates page for a repository of supporting orgs
- CodeX FutureLaw - Stanford - 11-16 April 2026 (Stanford, USA)
- AIES - AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, & Society - 12-14 October 2026 (Malmö, Sweden)
- EA Global | Effective Altruism - 16-18 October 2026 (New York City, USA)
- World AI Conference - 17-20 July 2026 (Shanghai, China)
papers
- AI Safety at the Frontier - monthly summary of AI safety papers
- AI systems out-persuade expert humans
- Effects of AI on the Online Information Ecosystem
- Reliability of LLMs as medical assistants for the general public - I would think these results would apply in the legal domain
- AI tools expand scientists’ impact but contract science’s focus
other
- AI in the Law for Legal Practitioners - Law Library Victoria
- Artificial Intelligence Hub - Law Institute of Victoria
- UNESCO Guidelines - AI in the Courtroom
- Victorian Law Reform Commission - Artificial Intelligence in Victoria’s Courts and Tribunals
- 2023 NSW Parliamentary Report - AI in NSW
- Human Clarity Institute (HCI) - AI & Human Behaviour Data