Tech Governance
Rules, Risks, and Safeguards for the Digital Age
How democracies ensure technology serves people—not power.
Kennedy recently had an insightful dialogue with Barbara Bijelic and Rashad Abelson of the OECD in Paris on advancing responsible AI standards.
Why Tech Governance Matters
- The stakes of innovation are no longer abstract. Artificial intelligence can reshape warfare, economies, and information. Cloud platforms move citizen data across borders. Chips built for research can power repression.
- In this world, governance is the new battleground—not only for safety, but for sovereignty.
- Democracies must lead not just in inventing technologies, but in governing them: embedding ethical norms, export controls, transparency mechanisms, and human oversight into the digital systems that will define our future.
The one who writes the rules writes the future. The U.S. must lead the codification of digital liberty.
What Tech Governance Includes
- Artificial Intelligence - Establishing AI safety rules, alignment mechanisms, model red-teaming, and frontier accountability
- Export Controls - Preventing sensitive technologies from enabling authoritarian surveillance or military advantage
- Data Governance - Protecting privacy and democratic rights across borders—without ceding ground to data localization mandates
- Digital Ethics & Norms - Promoting openness, fairness, and non-discrimination in systems that scale globally
- Transparency & Audits - Mandating traceability in models, chips, and software to ensure accountability
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Speech: Preserving the Ideals of the Enlightenment in the Age of Artificial Intelligence - AI Action Summit in Paris - February 11, 2025