10.1 - CC: Government

Artificial Intelligence Policy

🧠 Think:

• How does the use of AI support or undermine shared civic life?
• What complications does AI pose for the public policy process?
• What kinds of policy and governance do we neeed to consider - or re-consider - in the age of AI?

📖 Read:

• Farrell, 2025. “AI As Governance” Annual Review of Political Science.

🎧 Listen:

• Buchanan, Ben. 2025. “The Government Knows AGI is Coming” The Ezra Klein Show. See also YouTube Link

🌐 Browse:

• Toby Ord, Inference Scaling Reshapes AI Governance
• Zhang, et al. Ethics and Governance of Artificial Intelligence: Evidence from a Survey of Machine Learning Researchers Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research.
• The new proposed National Policy AI Framework:
  • The framework
  • The press release
  • Some press coverage:
    • Wall Stret Journal
    • New York Times

📚 Additional Resources:

• Risse, 2022. “Artificial Intelligence and the Past, Present, and Future of Democracy” Cambridge Handbook of Responsible Artificial Intelligence
• Martin, et al. “Political Machines: Understanding the role of Generative AI in the US 2024 elections and beyond”
• Jungherr, 2023. “Artificial Intelligence and Democracy: A Conceptual Framework”
• Zhang, “Public Opinion toward Artificial Intelligence” Oxford Handbook of AI Governance
• Sifry, 2024. “How AI is Transforming the Way Political Campaigns Work”
• Green et al, 2025. “Linking artificial intelligence job exposure to expectations: Understanding AI losers, winners, and their political preferences”

📝 Submit:

• Discussion question to course chat

TipTip

• “📖 Read”, “🎧 Listen”, and/or “📺 Watch” items are required content for the day, and should be read/heard/watched before class on that day.
• “🌐 Browse” items should be briefly looked at but do not need to be read deeply unless you want to
• “📚 Additional Resources” do not need to be looked at; they are there to serve, if useful, as further references for your debates, final projects, and general edification later.

Notes:

law & democracy

AI and Law AI Law/Hallucination argument AI hallucination prevalence

AI and Responsibility Himmelreich; Killer Robots