We combine big-picture thinking with practical advice to influence decision-makers, offering our expertise to policymakers, governments, legal teams, and other key stakeholders. Our work ranges from supporting state laws to participating in high-level discussions with federal lawmakers. Lawmakers invite us to educate their staff on emerging technologies, providing not just explanations of these issues but pointing towards practical solutions.
By fostering nuanced, informed discussions and focusing on long-term, scalable approaches, we're building a foundation for lasting change that adapts to the rapidly evolving tech landscape, aiming to create policies that better serve people and society.
Government and regulatory institutions are modernized, they adapt and react well to the development of new technologies and the challenges they present.
Tech companies operate via new duties of care, prioritizing user well-being over exploitative business strategies.
Consumer rights and protections are prioritized above corporate rights, granting individuals leverage and agency in their relationships with technology companies.
CHT is currently supporting groundbreaking litigation against Character.AI and Google. This case aims to set precedent for how our legal system responds to harmful AI products, and how AI is broadly regulated.
Regulating a new technology — especially one as powerful and promising as artificial intelligence — is a meaningful challenge for lawmakers. Amid the regulatory debates, CHT was one of the earliest voices in the call to use liability to drive responsible AI innovation.
Our dual strategy cultivates an informed public and drives structural change through policy — two mutually reinforcing levers.
Our public awareness work surfaces emerging harms — from open-source exploitation to chaotic actors and runaway AI — helping people understand not just what’s happening, but why it matters. This builds the engaged constituencies needed for lasting political change. Our policy team tracks these risks closely and is poised to move quickly when the political moment ripens, knowing that the biggest threats often surface before the solutions are actionable. This dynamic loop ensures we stay ahead of accelerating harms while driving real, systemic change.
The CHT policy team drives interventions that produce meaningful change in the tech ecosystem and in broader culture — without disrupting innovation.
Our policy team’s core interventions reflect deep policy research, extensive dialogues with policymakers and industry insiders, and a precise understanding of the mechanisms behind dangerous tech design. CHT’s core interventions include:
AI must meet the same rigorous safety standards we expect from any other product that impacts human lives. We focus on clarifying accountability when companies fall short of their duty of care. This realigns corporate incentives, pushing them to prioritize safety and responsibility in their development process, rather than rushing to market with inadequate safeguards for consumers.
When AI is designed to mimic human qualities, it manipulates trust, erodes truth, and distorts authentic human relationships. We focus on design choices and legal interventions that maintain a clear differentiation between humans and artificial intelligence in order to protect the foundations of authentic interaction.
In a world where technology increasingly shapes our choices, relationships, and work, people should have meaningful agency over their digital lives and personal information. We focus on strengthening, clarifying, and modernizing individual rights for the age of AI so that human dignity, autonomy, and freedom are preserved in every digital interaction.
To develop AI that serves the public interest, we need greater transparency and accountability mechanisms. We focus on extending proven whistleblower protections to tech workers so that those on the inside can speak out about safety risks, harmful design choices, or regulatory breaches, granting society vital insight into the true state of AI development.
