International Scientific Report on the Safety of Advanced AI (2026)
Senior Adviser and Contributor
Continuing role as Senior Adviser on the second edition of the global scientific assessment of advanced-AI safety.
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Insight, publications & briefings
Where Lee’s work reaches the field — the press coverage, international reports, and stages that shape how boards, investors, companies, governments, and other stakeholders think about AI.
Publications & reports
Publications at the forefront
International Scientific Report on the Safety of Advanced AI (2025)
Senior Adviser and Contributor
Senior Adviser and contributor to the inaugural report led by Yoshua Bengio, supported by 30+ countries and multilateral organizations.
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AI and Intellectual Property
Co-Author & Consultant
Co-authored OECD policy paper on AI and intellectual property, approved by the United States and 40+ other countries.
Read more →A Five-Step Roadmap to Closing the AI Evaluation Gap
Author
A practical roadmap for building the evaluation capacity that AI governance and procurement decisions now depend on.
Read more →AI and Intellectual Property: Navigating the Challenges of Data Scraping
Co-Author & Consultant
How rights holders, developers, and regulators can work through the intellectual-property questions raised by training on scraped data.
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The Artificial Intelligence Revolution: Challenges and Opportunities
Contributor
Contributing author of the chapter on US artificial intelligence regulation in Springer Nature’s edited volume on the AI revolution.
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Barriers to AI Inputs: Implications for Competition and Innovation
Co-author
On how constrained access to data, compute, and models shapes competition and the pace of innovation.
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Unlocking data collaboration: A study on data sharing practices and developing standard data licence terms to promote access and social good
Co-author
A study of data sharing practices and standard data licence terms, written with Thomas Carey-Wilson, Gefion Thuermer and Elena Simperl, on how data can be shared responsibly and lawfully as demand for well-governed data grows.
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Coverage and commentary.
Who should regulate global AI? China makes a play for leadership
Lee J. Tiedrich featured in The Wall Street Journal
Lee J. Tiedrich featured in Fortune Magazine
Lee J. Tiedrich featured in WIRED Magazine
Women in AI: Lee Tiedrich, AI expert at the Global Partnership on AI
Lee J. Tiedrich recognized by Marquis Who’s Who
Safety of advanced AI under the spotlight in the first independent international scientific report
UMD iSchool’s Lee Tiedrich leads global efforts to shape AI policy
Regulating artificial intelligence across borders
Putting stronger guardrails around AI
Lee Tiedrich on law, responsible technology, and life as an executive in residence
Lee Tiedrich on the importance of regulations for AI policy
How is artificial intelligence changing education?
Lee Tiedrich: pioneering innovations at the nexus of law, policy and technology
AI Center for Government Advisory Council
Anything but human: tech world grapples with AI
Ask anything: AI technology is here to stay, but can you trust it?
What you need to know about Biden’s sweeping AI order
Appeared In
Speaking & briefings
On the world’s stages.
Keynotes, panels, and closed-door briefings for corporate, government, and institutional leaders at high-profile venues around the globe.
Recent engagements
Panel on the 2026 International AI Safety Report
AI Governance and Risk Management
AI Red Team Testing
Welfare for All: Ensuring Equitable AI Growth Across the World’s Largest and Oldest Democracies
AI Agents for a Better Tomorrow: Government Services, Climate Action, and Resilient Infrastructure
AI Governance Starts with Standards, Not Laws
AI4 2026
International perspectives and emerging strategies on copyright and GenAI
The AI Revolution and Beyond — panel
Data, AI & compliance to advance defense and national security — fireside chat
Generative AI, a game-changer for climate action?
Keynote with Lee J. Tiedrich
Discussing the 2026 International AI Safety Report
Global Conference on Frontier AI
College of Information Studies 2024 Spring Commencement
Responsible AI Strategy for the Environment: a global and multidisciplinary approach
Creative Industries and the Emergence of Generative AI
Data and AI webinar: the data scraping challenge
Full recordings and briefing materials available on request.
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Watch & listen
Interviews, panels and keynotes.
Recorded appearances in one place.
Watch Lee in Conversation with Knowledge Networks
Watch Lee on the AI Revolution at the World Policy Conference in Abu Dhabi
The AI Revolution and Beyond
Watch Lee at the EU Intellectual Property Office Conference on Copyright
Data, AI & compliance in defense and national security
Generative AI, a game-changer for climate action?
Keynote with Lee J. Tiedrich
The legal challenges of using AI in business
On the White House Executive Order on AI
Recognitions
Some recognitions.
- Partnership for Public Service, AI Center for Government Advisory Council
- Former Senior Adviser for the 2025 & 2026 International Scientific Reports on Advanced AI Safety, funded by the UK and led by Yoshua Bengio and supported by 30+ countries and multilateral organizations.
- OECD and GPAI Expert Networks
- Member of European Union AI Office working group that developed AI codes of practice
- Selected for Marquis Who’s Who
- Editorial Board, Journal of AI Law and Regulation
- CIOLook’s 10 Best Leaders of the AI Age – Shaping a New Technological Era – 2024
- CIO Business World’s 10 Most Visionary Women Leaders in AI Creating Global Impact, 2024
- Women Innovators Award, Duke University, 2023
- Duke Engineering School Board of Visitors, Past Chair, Strategy Committee (on leave due to faculty appointment)
- Oxford University Press, Past Peer Reviewer for the Technology, Media and Telecoms Law Books Division
- ABA Section of Science and Technology, Past Council Member and Past Committee Chair
More
More publications.
Further articles, reports and book chapters, beyond the highlights above.
2026
- US Artificial Intelligence RegulationThe Artificial Intelligence Revolution: Challenges and Opportunities (Springer Nature)
- A Five-Step Roadmap to Closing the AI Evaluation GapOECD.AI Policy Observatory
- International AI Safety Report 2026International AI Safety Report
2025
- Barriers to AI Inputs: Implications for Competition and InnovationManagement and Business Review
- International AI Safety Report — Second Key Update: Technical Safeguards and Risk ManagementInternational AI Safety Report
- International AI Safety Report — First Key Update: Capabilities and Risk ImplicationsInternational AI Safety Report
- Artificial Intelligence and Intellectual Property: Navigating the Challenges of Data ScrapingOECD.AI Policy Observatory
- Intellectual Property Issues in Artificial Intelligence Trained on Scraped DataOECD Publishing
- How Might Standard Contract Terms Help Unlock Responsible AI Data Sharing?OECD.AI Policy Observatory
- Unlocking Data Collaboration: Data Sharing Practices and Standard Data Licence TermsOpen Data Institute
- International AI Safety Report 2025International AI Safety Report
2024
- International Scientific Report on the Safety of Advanced AI (Interim Report)International AI Safety Report
- Open-Source and Open Access Licensing in an AI Large Language Model (LLM) Driven WorldGlobal Partnership on AI
- The Grand Challenge: Creating Frameworks Unlocking AI’s Benefits and Mitigating HarmsJournal of AI Law and Regulation
- The AI Data Scraping Challenge: How Can We Proceed Responsibly?OECD.AI Policy Observatory
2023
- How Can Standard Contract Terms Advance Responsible AI Data and Model Sharing?Global Partnership on AI
- Fostering Contractual Pathways for Responsible AI Data and Model SharingGPAI Innovation & Commercialisation WG
- The AI Data Challenge: How Do We Protect Privacy and Other Fundamental Rights?OECD.AI Policy Observatory
- When AI Generates Work, Standard Contractual Terms Can Help Generate Value and ClarityOECD.AI Policy Observatory
- A Roadmap for an AI Learning CampaignOECD.AI Policy Observatory
- AI Legal Cases Are Increasing: How Can We Prepare?OECD.AI Policy Observatory
2020–2022
- Can AI Help Save the Planet?OECD.AI Policy Observatory
- Preliminary Report on Data and AI Model LicensingGlobal Partnership on AI
- Data and Emerging Technologies: The New Ethics and Compliance FrontierCEP Magazine
- Look for Voluntary Open Data Practices to Follow Other Open IP TrendsThe Licensing Journal
- NIST Solicits Comments on Four Principles of Explainable AIJournal of Robotics, Artificial Intelligence & Law · Jan/Feb 2021
- FTC Provides Guidance on the Use of AI and AlgorithmsJournal of AI Law and Regulation · Nov/Dec 2020
- 7 Suggestions for Law Students and New Lawyers Pursuing National Security Legal CareersDuke Lawfire
- 10 Best Practices for Artificial Intelligence Related Intellectual PropertyIntellectual Property & Technology Law Journal · Jul/Aug 2020
- 10 Steps to Creating Trustworthy AI ApplicationsLaw360
- Recent Developments in Artificial Intelligence Law and PolicyThe Regulatory Review, Penn
- AI Update: White House Issues 10 Principles for Artificial Intelligence RegulationInside Tech Media
Earlier
- 10 Best Practices for Due Diligence in AI TransactionsLaw360
- What Is… mHealth?American Bar Association
- LicensingE-Commerce Law & Business (Aspen Law & Business)
- Obscenity and IndecencyThe Communications Act: A Legislative History of the Major Amendments
- Competitive Bidding and Personal Communications Services — A New Paradigm for FCC Licensing3 CommLaw Conspectus 17, Catholic University
- The National Information Infrastructure Initiative and the Emergence of the Electronic Superhighway46 Federal Communications Law Journal 397, Indiana University
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