Center for Responsible Innovation
The Center for Responsible Innovation (CRI) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the quality of the AI policy conversation in the United States. CRI focuses on translating AI policy research into concrete, actionable, and politically feasible legislative proposals, building bipartisan coalitions in Congress, and educating policymakers on the risks and opportunities of artificial intelligence. It operates in close partnership with its sister organization, Americans for Responsible Innovation (ARI), a 501(c)(4) advocacy entity. Together, the two organizations pursue a big-tent, bipartisan approach to AI governance that emphasizes independence from industry funding.
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CRI believes that a critical bottleneck in AI governance is the gap between policy research and enacted legislation. Many organizations study AI risks and governance options, but few translate those ideas into concrete, politically viable legislative proposals or actively build the Congressional coalitions needed to pass them. CRI aims to close this gap by producing actionable policy proposals, educating lawmakers directly through briefings and forums, and building bipartisan support for responsible AI governance. By operating independently of industry funding and reaching across party lines, CRI aims to create the political conditions for durable AI safety legislation. The causal chain is: better-informed policymakers with concrete proposals to act on leads to enacted AI governance frameworks, which reduces the probability of societal-scale harms from advanced AI systems.
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- Last Updated
- Apr 2, 2026, 9:52 PM UTC
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- Mar 20, 2026, 2:34 AM UTC