Governance
Policies, regulations, institutions, and international coordination mechanisms for advanced AI. The cluster includes corporate-level frameworks (RSPs, OpenAI Preparedness Framework, DeepMind FSF), national regulation (EU AI Act, US executive orders, AISIs), and international coordination (Bletchley Summit, the AI Safety Institute network, the International AI Safety Report 2025). See ai-governance for the umbrella concept.
The pillar’s structural problem: AI development is global and capability-driven, but regulation is national and process-driven. Bridging that gap — and resisting race-to-the-bottom dynamics on safety — is the field’s open governance question. Power concentration is the failure mode this layer specifically addresses; technical alignment alone cannot.