Georgetown University

Georgetown University, founded in 1789 in Washington, D.C., is the oldest Catholic and Jesuit university in the United States and a leading private research university with approximately 20,000 students and over 7,000 employees. It operates ten schools across multiple campuses and recorded $376.6 million in research and development expenditures in FY2024. Note: The Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET) is Georgetown's flagship AI policy center and is catalogued separately. The programs described here represent Georgetown's broader AI safety and governance ecosystem. The McCourt School of Public Policy houses the Tech & Public Policy (TPP) program, which supports research on digital governance, agentic AI, AI regulation, social media, and online platforms. The program administers an annual grants initiative, awarding approximately $1.5 million to Georgetown researchers working on emerging technology and society questions. It also operates a visiting fellows program that brings practitioners from government, think tanks, and industry to engage with students. The AI Policy Lab at McCourt convenes leading experts to produce actionable AI policy guidance. It has partnered with The Future US on election security policy recommendations for DHS, CISA, and DOJ/FBI; with Public Citizen on AI's impact on financial systems; and with Mozilla on AI and open source policy. Georgetown Law's Institute for Technology Law & Policy engages with legal and regulatory questions around AI, including government AI procurement and use, AI liability, and the emerging legal frameworks for AI safety. It has co-hosted invite-only roundtables with CSET and the Beeck Center on government AI deployment. The Center for Digital Ethics conducts research on AI ethics, algorithmic fairness, explainable AI, and AI's implications for democratic society. Faculty researchers include Will Fleisher (algorithmic fairness and epistemic questions), Laura DeNardis (generative AI policy), and Amanda Levendowski (AI bias and intellectual property). The Georgetown AI Association (GAIA), established in 2023, is a student-led organization dedicated to supporting graduate and undergraduate students interested in mitigating risks from advanced AI. It runs an AI Policy Fellowship, speaker events, and career guidance to prepare students for careers in AI safety policy across government, think tanks, and civil society.