Guardrails: Design Principles for Regulating AI

Everywhere, AI is entering everyday decision-making, from suggesting business strategies and sales pitches to crafting student essays and shaping recruitment processes. Its growing reach and power have prompted concerns, reflected in a fast-growing forest of ethics and responsibility frameworks, laws, and regulations. 

In Guardrails: Guiding Human Decisions in the Age of AI, Professors Urs Gasser and Viktor Mayer-Schönberger begin their normative analysis with the process of decision-making and the role AI plays in it, developing simple design principles for AI regulation that are actionable yet durable.

About the speakers

Urs Gasser is Dean of the School of Social Sciences and Technology at the Technical University of Munich (TUM). He previously led Harvard University’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society.

Viktor Mayer-Schönberger is Professor of Competitive Governance at the Technical University of Munich, following many years at the Oxford Internet Institute. In addition to “Guardrails”, he is the (co)author of “Delete”, “Big Data”, and “Framers”, among other works.