This white paper assesses federal efforts to advance leadership on AI innovation and governance through recent executive actions and emphasizes the need for senior-level leadership to achieve a whole-of-government approach.
This report leverages broad evidence—including empirical research, historical analysis, and modeling and simulations—to provide a framework for policymaking on the frontier of AI development. Building on this multidisciplinary approach, this report derives policy principles that can inform how California approaches the use, assessment, and governance of frontier AI—principles rooted in an ethos of “trust but verify.” This approach takes into account the importance of innovation while establishing appropriate strategies to reduce material risk