Independent public-interest research
Horizon Search Institute studies how institutions adapt when technological, human, planetary, and geopolitical systems change together.
Our research connects these transitions to the decisions facing policymakers, institutional leaders, and society.
Where AI is actually governed, from international commitments to infrastructure, standards, and enforcement.
The Scan examines how institutions set the conditions on AI’s use through access to computing capacity, procurement, insurance, and existing law. It compares legislation and enforcement across seven major regimes and sets out four priorities for institutional leaders.
Ashwin Telang, Avisikta Sinha and Sam Marson on disclosure and accountability in AI commerce.
Read the briefThe information needed for an informed purchase exists within the chain, and the question for policymakers is whether the party holding it at the decisive moment should be required to share it.
Gloria Chen on open-weight cyber capability, private defender-access programs and the gap between finding flaws and fixing them.
Read Searchlight 028Early access to the most advanced models protects an organization only as far as it repairs what they find.
Research
All researchAI governance as institutional design.
Human capability is institutional infrastructure.
Explore Human PerformanceStewardship across generations.
Coordination across borders and institutions.
Explore Governance & DiplomacyThe shared framework
Technology, human capability, planetary systems, and geopolitics change together. Compound Transition examines how a decision in one domain constrains or enables choices in the others.
Explore the frameworkPublications
Searchlight provides short-form analysis of emerging signals. Research Briefs develop focused institutional questions. Horizon Scans synthesize changing landscapes. The planned HSI Outlook will bring work across the four programs together.
Explore the publishing programThe Verification Test states a claim, the evidence that would support it, and the evidence that would weaken or falsify it. HSI uses the test in Searchlight issues as one part of a broader research-integrity approach that also covers authorship, sourcing, review, disclosure, and corrections.
Regulators are moving to require platforms to pay publishers for AI-generated search summaries as a use in its own right, over and above payment for training and indexing.
A formal investigation opens, or interim measures land on Google tied specifically to generative summarization, on roughly the timeline the Meta order took.
The Autorité treats the complaint as already covered by the 2022 commitments and creates no new obligation, which would suggest generative summarization is not yet a distinct licensable use in the EU framework.
HSI has held salons in New York (June 2026) and London (October 2026). Tokyo is in development for February 2027.
Asia Anchor Salon · Governance & Diplomacy
Human Agency in an Age of Intelligent Systems. Building on New York and London, the Tokyo Salon would examine how societies adapt to advanced AI, drawing on Japanese and wider Asian perspectives. Date and venue to be confirmed.
About the Tokyo Salon
The Royal Society
Read the debriefThe Royal Society · Governance & Diplomacy · Horizon Scan 002
Twenty-two participants, under the Chatham House Rule, on governing intelligent systems: broad agreement on ends, sharper disagreement on means. Read the debrief →
House of the Redeemer · Responsible AI · Horizon Scan 001
Senior leaders from finance, healthcare, law, government, the UN system, and academia, convened under the Chatham House Rule to test Horizon Scan 001 against the judgment of people who run regulated institutions. Read the recap →
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HSI welcomes relevant institutional collaborations and philanthropic support. Neither relationship confers control over research conclusions.
Research and co-publication, field access, academic collaboration, convening, and foundation funding. Partners bring questions, data, and settings the Institute could not reach alone.
Project scope, disclosure, and editorial independence are established before work begins.
How partnership works →Founding Patrons provide general support for independent public-interest research, open governance tools, the Doctoral Fellowship, and convenings. Recognition and other benefits remain secondary to that philanthropic purpose.
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