Innovation Showcase is an opportunity for California state teams to hear from innovators about challenges facing delivery of services to
November 6, 2025
Professor Dan Ho participated in a fireside chat with Mike Johnston and Jennifer Pahlka at the 2nd DenAI Summit.
October 2, 2025
RegLab’s partnership with San Diego to use computer vision to improve road maintenance and resource allocation is discussed by the Bloomberg Cities Network.
August 14, 2025
Stanford Report features RegLab’s work developing the Statutory Research Assistant (STARA) and an AI tool to identify racially restricted covenants.
July 29, 2025
RegLab Policy Fellow Jennifer Pahlka highlights STARA in making the case for leveraging AI to improve governance.
July 18, 2025
A policy brief that assesses the benefits of and provides policy recommendations for adverse event reporting systems for AI.
June 30, 2025
A policy brief introducing STARA, a novel AI tool that performs statutory surveys to help governments—such as the San Francisco City Attorney Office—identify policy sludge and accelerate legal reform.
June 18, 2025
Dan Ho and other members of the RegLab team contributed to the report produced by the Joint California Policy Working Group on AI Frontier Models, which offers a policy framework for responsible, ethical, and safe use of AI.
June 17, 2025
City Attorney David Chiu is working with RegLab to identify and delete old, redundant municipal code sections.
June 5, 2025
A benchmark featuring 25 systems with complex, real-world codebases, and 40 bug bounties that cover 9 of the OWASP Top 10 Risks.
May 21, 2025
Congratulations to the Cybench team, who won first prize in the Center for AI Safety’s SafeBench competition!
April 16, 2025
Rebecca Lester discusses RegLab’s collaboration with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to apply cutting-edge techniques to efforts to close the gap between taxes owed and received.
April 14, 2025
Current generative AI models struggle to recognize when demographic distinctions matter—leading to inaccurate, misleading, and sometimes harmful outcomes.
February 6, 2025
A new RegLab 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.
January 17, 2025
Dan Ho offers behind the scenes insight into the AI bootcamp for California officials that RegLab co-hosted.
December 9, 2024
Congratulations to Dr. Thomas Hertz, a Senior Economist at the IRS and RegLab collaborator! Bestowed annually by the Office of Management and Budget, the award recognizes “evaluation mavericks who think up creative and outside-the-box evaluation ideas, help design them, and see them through to execution.”
November 27, 2024
The United States needs adaptable and responsive government institutions to effectively tackle the complex challenges facing the country both domestically and internationally.
October 30, 2024
The Stanford Graduate School of Business Insights covers RegLab research into the “spiderwebs” of complex business partnerships and how the IRS can improve its audits.
October 30, 2024
In collaboration with Santa Clara County, RegLab led the development and application of an AI model that provides an efficient and effective means of complying with California's Anti-Discrimination Law
October 17, 2024
We are thrilled to introduce and hear from Elena Eneva, who brings a wealth of knowledge and experience to our team. Welcome, Elena!
October 14, 2024
Dan Ho co-authored a new article published in Science that analyzes the impact of different policy proposals related to regulating open foundation models.
October 10, 2024
Congratulations to Professor Goldin for recognition of his outstanding early-career impacts on the field of law and economics by the University of Chicago!
June 1, 2024
A new RegLab study evaluates the performance of two popular AI-powered legal tools and finds they still hallucinate at alarming rates – underscoring the need for benchmarking and public evaluations of AI tools in law.
May 24, 2024
Congratulations to RegLab's Faculty Director on his election to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences!
April 27, 2024
RegLab Executive Director, Christine Tsang, and our research partner, Dr. Sara Cody, Santa Clara County Health Officer, provided expert testimony to the Senate Labor, Public Employment and Retirement Committee on Senate Bill 1070, aimed at enabling talent exchanges into state and local government.
April 24, 2024
Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar, Dan Ho, Jennifer Pahlka, Amy Perez, Kit Rodolfa, and Gerald Ray draft guidance to the federal government on responsible use of AI.
April 12, 2024
Congrats to Emily Black and to Arushi Gupta, Victor Wu, Jen King, Helen Webley-Brown and Dan Ho for their awards from the Future of Privacy Forum!
April 12, 2024
In Stanford University’s new campaign website, “Momentum," RegLab is featured for its efforts addressing one of “the most wicked problems” – how to nudge government into the 21st century
April 12, 2024
In a Washington Post op-ed, RegLab’s Dan Ho and Anne Joseph O’Connell recommend that the federal government should leverage the Intergovernmental Personnel Act to enable talent exchange and address its workforce crisis.
March 12, 2024
Professor Ho shared his expertise with the California State Senate through the joint hearing, “California at the Forefront: Steering AI Towards Ethical Horizons.”
February 24, 2024
The rapid adoption of LLM-based legal tools has the potential to transform the practice of law, but these tools carry risks that need to be appropriately understood. In a new RegLab study, we test three popular tools and show that hallucinations are pervasive.
January 12, 2024
A veterans benefits study led by Sandy Handan-Nader triggered a Government Accountability Office (GAO) inquiry, congressional hearing, and subsequent report.
December 1, 2023
In this episode of the Stanford Woods Institute Uncommon Collaborators series, Ho and Suckale discuss how they forged a unique partnership between geophysics and law to address the challenges of freshwater monitoring in the U.S.
November 28, 2023
SIL announced a commitment to support RegLab through its first-ever Stage 3: Amplify Impact round.
November 9, 2023
Racial disparities identified by RegLab researchers Hadi Elzayn and Evelyn Smith result in overhaul of IRS audit selection methods
September 20, 2023
In “Talent exchanges for state governments”, authors Daniel E. Ho, Anne Joseph O’Connell, and Isaac Cui make the case for a state version of the Federal Intergovernmental Personnel Act.
September 14, 2023
Leaders chosen to evaluate the impact of artificial intelligence on the legal profession
September 6, 2023
Arushi Gupta, Victor Y. Wu and Helen Webley-Brown won a Best Paper award at the ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAccT). Co-supervised by Jen King and Dan Ho, the paper examines the privacy-bias tradeoff that has bedeviled U.S. federal agencies.
August 16, 2023
Christie Lawrence and Isaac Cui won the Best Paper award from the AAAI/ACM Conference Artificial Intelligence, Ethics, and Society (AIES) for important work on understanding the capacity of federal agencies to implement binding AI governance measures!
August 16, 2023