Public Policy
Course Title: Who Governs AI Policy?
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Artificial intelligence is a transformational technology that is reshaping how we live, work, and connect. Some of those changes are profoundly beneficial; others create real risks of harm, displacement, and concentrated power. The rules governing AI's development and deployment will create many winners and losers, and Washington, D.C. - capital of one of the world's two leading AI superpowers - is poised to be the central battleground in the fight to write them. Actors from Congress to industry to civil society, among others, are each working to shape those rules on their own terms.
Each week, this course examines how a different actor wages that fight in the nation’s capital: the interests driving their behavior, the tools available to them, and the strategies they deploy to advance their preferred policy outcomes. Each class splits time between theory and practice: the first half grounding students in context and research, the second bringing a Washington practitioner in to make those concepts concrete, leaving students with a sophisticated understanding of how AI policy is actually made and contested, and the tools to shape it themselves.
Jasneet Hora
Jasneet Hora is a policy advisor who has worked with leaders on some of Washington’s most consequential challenges, including the governance of artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies. He previously served as deputy director of speechwriting for Vice President Kamala Harris and as a speechwriter and advisor to Secretary of State Antony Blinken. Across both roles, he wrote on the governance of artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies. He holds a master’s degree in public administration from Columbia University and a bachelor’s degree in political economy from UC Berkeley, where he spent a happy summer living at the UC Washington Center.
