Publications
Publications collect AAPI's written analysis in four forms. Legislative Briefs track and verify state legislation bearing on AI status and governance, and distinguish AI-specific statutes from omnibus personhood bans and chatbot disclosure laws that are often wrongly conflated in press coverage. Legislative Responses analyze specific bills before Congress or the state legislatures — identifying structural gaps in the proposed text and proposing concrete statutory amendments to close them. Each works from the bill's actual language rather than its press framing, and is written to strengthen the legislation and help it hold up under the harder cases it will meet in markup and beyond. Evidence Briefs examine specific empirical findings — interpretability results, multi-agent studies, and related work — and assess what each does and does not show about the capacities relevant to moral status, holding to a firm standard against overclaiming. Notes are shorter analytical pieces: commentary on policy developments, conceptual questions, and the reasoning behind the framework.