Iskandar Haykel
Senior Policy Analyst
Former bioethicist at Google (via Advanced Clinical); Former researcher in NYU’s digital governance initiative
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Research & Publications
Responsible Innovation at the Frontier
Over the last two years, frontier AI has advanced at a pace that has forced policymakers to reckon with a difficult reality: the technology is too consequential to be governed by a laissez-faire approach. This recognition has prompted a growing push for government action.
Read Full Analysis →The Path for Federal Frontier AI Governance
The minimum conditions a federal framework must meet to serve the public interest
Read Full Analysis →After Mythos
Anthropic’s latest AI model, Claude Mythos, has arrived with visions of impending upheaval and future crises in tow. Within days of the new model’s launch, senior federal financial officia...
Read Full Analysis →AI Safety Research Highlights of 2025
2025 has shaped up to be a watershed year for AI safety and security. Frontier models showed improved potential to facilitate CBRN threats, lending greater salience to these catastrophic risks. Leadin...
Read Full Analysis →The Stick, the Carrot, and the Net: Policy Approaches for Addressing AI Agent Harms
This report examines three policy approaches for addressing AI agent harms: the “stick” of conventional tort liability; the “carrot” of liability immunity in exchange for proactive governance ...
Read Full Analysis →Federal Preemption of State Laws
Author Iskandar Haykel examines how state laws would be impacted by federal legislation that would preempt state AI regulation for the next 10 years. This research explores case studies of state tech ...
Read Full Analysis →AI Security Tax Incentives
Americans for Responsible Innovation recently released a proposal to institute a tax incentive for research on AI security and responsible AI development. We developed this proposal for Congress to co...
Read Full Analysis →Explainer: DeepSeek, Distillation, and AI IP Theft
Last week, ARI held a panel with technical and policy experts on AI model piracy – stealing AI IP – and specifically distillation, a technique by which the performance and capabilities of advanced...
Read Full Analysis →Want Insight into AI Policy Under President Trump? Four Questions for Secretary of Commerce Nominee Howard Lutnick
As the Trump Administration makes its first moves on AI policy, the Commerce Department will likely remain a nerve center for AI policymaking over the next four years. In addition to housing NIST and ...
Read Full Analysis →2024 AI Recap: Three Trends in AI This Year
Moving Away from Big Models, Embracing the Military, and Fighting Regulation
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