Writing the government’s legal playbook for superintelligence.

The Center for Superintelligence Policy works out what the government can — and should — do as AI systems become superintelligent. We build legally specified, actionable proposals so that policymakers are ready for the moment.

People

Founders

Writing

Writing

Essays, op-eds and articles by the Center’s founders.

About

Options, drafted in advance

AI systems may soon match the best human scientists and engineers, including at building better AI. When that happens, the important decisions in Washington and in the states will be made in a hurry, by officials who reach for whatever is ready. Very little is ready.

The Center is doing that work ahead of time, for whoever is in office. We combine deep knowledge of the law and the administrative state with technical AI governance.

Current work

What we’re working on

  • Seeing inside the labs

    How the government can learn what is happening inside frontier AI companies, including how close they are to automating their own research.

  • Securing the most valuable models

    The legal paths to protecting an automated AI researcher from theft by a foreign government.

  • Governing RSI

    When AI systems become able to do AI research themselves, the decisions made within AI companies will be highly consequential. We’re mapping how the government can play a role during that time.

  • The first days of an emergency

    What the President and the states can lawfully do in the first days after an AI-enabled crisis.

Much of this work goes to officials directly, in briefings and memos. Some of it appears in print.

Writing

Recent writing

All writing
Tal Feldman

Tal Feldman

Co-founder

Tal Feldman writes about AI and national security. His work has appeared in the New York Times, Foreign Affairs, the Washington Post, Foreign Policy, MIT Technology Review, Lawfare and Science.

Before law school he built AI systems for the government. He led an 18-person AI engineering team at the State Department and also worked at the Federal Reserve Board and the Department of Defense. He was a Schwarzman Scholar at Tsinghua University and is a Truman Scholar and a Paul & Daisy Soros Fellow. He is a J.D. candidate at Yale Law School and an editor of the Yale Law Journal.

Ibrahim Dagher

Ibrahim Dagher

Co-founder

Ibrahim Dagher writes about how machine learning works and what that means for AI policy. His writing has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, Lawfare and Just Security.

His background is in formal methods and philosophy. He has published in Synthese, Philosophia and other philosophy journals. The Yale Law School faculty awarded him the Cohen Prize for legal philosophy. He was most recently a summer fellow at the Foundation for American Innovation and the Institute for Law & AI. He is pursuing a J.D. and a Ph.D. in philosophy at Yale, where he is a Paul & Daisy Soros Fellow.

Kevin Xiao

Kevin Xiao

Co-founder

Kevin Xiao works on structural constitutional law, administrative law and the separation of powers. His writing on AI governance and cybersecurity has appeared in the Wall Street Journal and Just Security.

He was president of the William F. Buckley, Jr. Program at Yale and worked on data privacy at the Federal Election Commission. He earned his B.A. and M.A. in political science at Yale and is a J.D. candidate at Yale Law School.

2026

2025