Rui-Jie Yew

Thanks for the signal boost, @jlkoepke.bsky.social!

We wrote this paper to respond to real confusion we saw in various bills and in conversations with legislators. So while parts may be obvious to academics steeped in this work, hopefully it can give those working in AI policy some useful clarity.

It's been a journey of nearly 3 years, but I'm very excited to announce the CNTR AISLE Portal! 🚀 cntr-aisle.org It’s a new way to review and evaluate the 1,000+ AI bills introduced in the U.S. over the last three years. Check out the Bill Library and our Profiles#AIPolicy #OpenData

This Wednesday! Don't forget to register!

Featuring Keynotes and Discussants (11:00am-1:00pm ET)
@djweitzner.bsky.social (MIT) with Kobbi Nissim (Georgetown),
Katrina Ligett (HUJI) with Talia Gillis (Columbia)

The @acmsigecom.bsky.social Winter Meeting and CSLaw Workshop are combined and on Wed., Feb. 25. Topic:

"Algorithmic Game Theory, AI, and Law"

Winter Meeting: www.sigecom.org/meetings/win...
CSLaw Workshop: www.cslawworkshop.org

Organizers: Rachel Cummings and @inbaltalgam.bsky.social.

Congrats to BART rider and Oakland legend Alysa Liu on winning a gold medal at the Olympics and making the Bay Area proud!

We opened up applications for the Brown AI Policy Summer School! Please share with any computing or computational social science students who want to engage substantively with policymaking in the United States: cntr.brown.edu/summer-school.

Deadline March 27th!!! Funding available!

Alignment Problems in AI GovernanceLocation YouTube video by Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing

Next was a great talk by @r-jy.bsky.social and Greg Demirchyan on alignment problems in AI governance at @simonsinstitute.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=rV2P... (5/7)

Alignment Problems in AI Governance In an event comprising short talks and dialogue, Simons Institute Law and Society Fellows Rui-Jie Yew and Greg Demirchyan will explore two challenges of alignment in AI governance. First, we currently...

Thurs., 2/5 at 3:30 p.m., Law & Society Fellows Rui-Jie Yew and Greg Demirchyan discuss Alignment Problems in AI Governance.

simons.berkeley.edu/events/align...

in which my students explain the context-sensitivity of social roles and norms 😅

I've also had the pleasure of discussing this project with a terrific community --- including Nadia Khan, Inha Cha, @robin.berjon.com, @paeth.xyz, and my colleagues at Brown CS and CNTR. This project also started through a Brown AI and Humanities Reading Group.

Looking forward to more conversation.

Left: 1942 "War Map" produced by Esso, now ExxonMobil, charting oil's role in transportation as "key to victory". Right: 2024 map produced by NVIDIA as part of an investor presentation slide deck describing its involvement in sovereign AI efforts globally. On the left panel: "Nations are awakening to the imperative to produce artificial intelligence using their own infrastructure, data workforces and business networks."

The Commodification of AI Sovereignty: Lessons from the Fight for Sovereign Oil (with Kate E. Creasey, Taylor Lynn Curtis, and @geomblog.bsky.social), is out now on arXiv: www.arxiv.org/abs/2601.11763.

It was then, over two bowls of seafood soondobu, that we started thinking through how an oil parallel could be generative for the commodification of AI sovereignty today.

'Sovereignty' Myth-Making in the AI Race Tech companies stand to gain by encouraging the illusion of a race for 'sovereign' AI, write Rui-Jie Yew, Kate Elizabeth Creasey, Suresh Venkatasubramanian.

In the beginning of November, Kate and I met to think more about how to continue the work from our tech policy press blogpost on AI sovereignty.

She mentioned she’d been reading Laleh Khalili's works on oil in the Middle East and that she couldn’t get AI out of her head.

Making Sense of AI Policy Using Computational Tools | TechPolicy.Press A new report examines how to use computational tools to evaluate policy, with AI policy as a case study.

We released a new report in partnership with the Center for Tech Responsibility at Brown University on how policymakers and researchers can better analyze AI legislation to protect our civil rights and liberties.

Excited to be starting as a Law and Society Fellow at the @simonsinstitute.bsky.social in Berkeley next week. Looking forward to connecting with friends, old and new!

Caring for yourself and each other Resources for the Brown community, friends, family, loved ones and how to support us

New post by @michelleding.bsky.social on resources for the Brown community in the aftermath of the shooting. open.substack.com/pub/michelle...

📍 Come to the #NeurIPS2025 Position Paper Panel at 3:30PM where @princessacintaqia.bsky.social will be speaking about our work: "Stop the Nonconsensual Use of Nude Images in Research". I’m also around and happy to chat!

Learn more: www.safedigitalintimacy.org/datasets

More info below!

Very glad to be a part of a new paper detailing how developers and developer platforms can prevent AIG-NCII, a form of image based sexual abuse that disproportionately harms women and girls. Thanks to all the collaborators and Max Kamachee & @scasper.bsky.social for leading this important project!

Thanks to collaborators! This was a really interesting paper for me to work on, and it took a special group of interdisciplinary people to get it done.
Max Kamachee
@r-jy.bsky.social
@michelleding.bsky.social
@ankareuel.bsky.social
@stellaathena.bsky.social
@dhadfieldmenell.bsky.social

ACM members/computing researchers who should be members interested in contributing should join the subcommittee's mailing list!

One of our goals here is to build policy coalitions across institutions so we can do more as a collective 💪 and balance special interest groups.

We Need To Rewild The Internet  | NOEMA The internet has become an extractive and fragile monoculture. But we can revitalize it using lessons learned by ecologists.

Can't work because AWS?

It's a good time to read this piece if you haven't! www.noemamag.com/we-need-to-r...

Thanks to @geomblog.bsky.social, @scasper.bsky.social, @krisshrishak.bsky.social, @lucyq.bsky.social for helpful discussions and reviewing drafts! 💖 (6/6)

We conclude with a discussion of policy implications that centers on the consideration of business incentives that drive AI development, and we emphasize the importance of technological expertise in assessing whether these technologies fulfill their purported protections. (5/n)

Second, we investigate how emerging techniques, including open-source releases and alignment techniques, function as mechanisms of change. By championing industry-controlled standards, AI companies can direct focus away from regulatory oversight and toward a system of self-governance. (4/n)

First, we reveal how techniques like federated learning and synthetic data—framed as preserving privacy or reducing bias—operate as avoidance mechanisms. In attempts to place data operations outside traditional frameworks, these methods enable companies to sidestep existing data regulations. (3/n)

Using the framework of “anti-regulatory mechanisms”, developed in 2003 in response to the use of code to avoid copyright liability in a string of peer-to-peer network lawsuits, we catalog how this toolkit of technologies can also serve ulterior functions as mechanisms of legal influence. (2/n)

Technologies like synthetic data, evaluations, and red-teaming are often framed as enhancing AI privacy and safety. But what if their effects lie elsewhere?

In a new paper with @realbrianjudge.bsky.social at #EAAMO25, we pull back the curtain on AI safety's toolkit. (1/n)

arxiv.org/pdf/2509.22872

Third Workshop on Socially Responsible Language Modelling Research (SoLaR) 2025 COLM 2025 in-person Workshop, October 10th at the Palais des Congrès in Montreal, Canada

Hi #COLM2025! 🇨🇦 I will be presenting a talk on the importance of community-driven LLM evaluations based on an opinion abstract I wrote with Jo Kavishe, @victorojewale.bsky.social and @geomblog.bsky.social tomorrow at 9:30am in 524b for solar-colm.github.io

Hope to see you there!

Great policy brief from @datasociety.bsky.social - happy to see that it draws from award-winning work by @r-jy.bsky.social and @lucyq.bsky.social at AIES last year.

The myth of sovereign AI: Countries rely on U.S. and Chinese tech As countries pursue self-sufficiency in AI, they risk depending on foreign companies, undermining their independence and their goals.

“States should think very carefully about what they actually want to get out of this before spending hundreds of billions of dollars trying to indigenize the entire AI stack”