About AIA
The Harvard Law Artificial Intelligence Student Association (“AIA“) is a student-led organization at Harvard Law School established in 2024 dedicated to exploring the ethical, legal, and societal impacts of artificial intelligence. Founded with a mission to ensure that transformative AI technologies positively shape our world, AIA focuses on the intersections of AI, law, and policy, including areas such as AI governance, accountability, and safety.
AIA’s community hosts events, reading groups, and discussions that connect students with thought leaders in AI and policy, fostering an inclusive space for dialogue and research. Our online presence further supports these initiatives by sharing insights and resources. For more information, please contact us at [email protected]
Mission Statement
The mission of the AIA is to ensure that transformational artificial intelligence (“AI“) technologies have positive consequences for the world. AIA will focus on ways in which law, policy, and regulation can help bring about these positive consequences.
Artificial intelligence is poised to have transformational effects on society. As AI systems (“AIs“) advance in capability, and as AIs are delegated more control over key institutions, it is essential that these systems’ decisions be transparent, trustworthy, and accountable to the people affected by them.
AI’s transformative effects will give rise to novel questions related to law, policy, and regulation (sometimes collectively referred to as “AI governance”). AIA will fulfill its mission by: (1) studying cutting-edge scholarship on AI governance; (2) promoting sound scholarship on AI governance; (3) establishing community and dialogues between students and experts in the fields of AI law and policy; (4) promoting a general understanding, within and beyond its membership, of AI technologies and their effects; (5) providing a thoughtful and inclusive space for conversations on AI law and policy.