Iskandar Haykel
Senior Policy Analyst
Former bioethicist at Google (via Advanced Clinical); Former researcher in NYU’s digital governance initiative
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Research & Publications
AI Safety Research Highlights of 2025
2025 has shaped up to be a watershed year for AI safety and security. Frontier models showed improved potential to facilitate CBRN threats, lending greater...
Read Full Analysis →The Stick, the Carrot, and the Net: Policy Approaches for Addressing AI Agent Harms
This report examines three policy approaches for addressing AI agent harms: the “stick” of conventional tort liability; the “carrot” of liability immunity in exchange for...
Read Full Analysis →AI Security Tax Incentives
The Case For AI Security Tax Incentives & How They Could Work Americans for Responsible Innovation recently released a proposal to institute a tax incentive...
Read Full Analysis →Explainer: DeepSeek, Distillation, and AI IP Theft
What Distillation and Model Weight Theft Means for the Future of U.S. AI Innovation & Policy Last week, ARI held a panel with technical and...
Read Full Analysis →Want Insight into AI Policy Under President Trump? Four Questions for Secretary of Commerce Nominee Howard Lutnick
As the Trump Administration makes its first moves on AI policy, the Commerce Department will likely remain a nerve center for AI policymaking over the...
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