Pillar I · HSI Research

Governing AI as organizational design, not compliance overhead.

AI and Emerging Technology Governance

How institutions govern AI and adjacent emerging technologies as systems become more autonomous, adaptive, and embedded in consequential decisions. Our work examines accountability, organizational design, deployment governance, and the institutional capabilities required when static rules are no longer enough.

Our Responsible AI work starts from a structural premise: the systems built for predictable, point-in-time AI are not enough for agentic systems and continuous-oversight regimes. The gap is not regulatory but institutional. Closing it means reorganizing model risk, compliance, technology, and legal functions into integrated governance that runs on a different clock than the traditional examination cycle.

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How do board risk committees develop AI risk appetite frameworks when system behavior cannot be fully specified in advance?
DraftingResearch Brief · Q4 2026
What does continuous lifecycle monitoring require operationally, and what is the eighteen-month build path for institutions starting from a compliance-only posture?
PublishedHorizon Scan 001 · May 2026
How should the three lines of defense be restructured for agentic systems, where ownership is distributed across product, engineering, compliance, and legal?
ScopingResearch Brief · Q3 2026
Where do MAS lifecycle controls, EU AI Act post-deployment obligations, FDA Total Product Lifecycle frameworks, and SR 11-7 evolution converge in operational expectations?
DraftingHorizon Scan 002 · Q3 2026
Roster expanding through the 2026 cohort. Fellowship program →
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