Governance of AI Lab (GOAL)
About
Updated 05/18/26The Governance of AI Lab (GOAL) is a cross-disciplinary research lab based at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem’s Faculty of Law and School of Computer Science and Engineering. Led by Assistant Professor Noam Kolt, the lab develops institutional and technical infrastructure to ensure advanced AI systems are safe, ethical, and legally compliant. GOAL integrates methods from law, computer science, and the social sciences to study how autonomous AI agents should be governed, how to empirically test whether AI systems follow legal rules, and how to design adaptive institutions for AI governance. Its researchers contribute to both legal scholarship and computer science venues and have co-authored work such as the 2025 AI Agent Index, which systematically documents deployed agentic AI systems and their safety features.
Theory of Change
GOAL’s theory of change is that governing increasingly autonomous AI agents requires combining legal doctrine, empirical evaluation, and technical design. By identifying the legal rules and principles AI systems should follow, building benchmarks that test whether AI agents comply with those rules, and proposing institutional frameworks for oversight, the lab aims to influence how AI developers, regulators, and policymakers design and deploy advanced AI systems. Rigorous, law-informed evaluations and governance proposals are intended to reduce systemic risks from powerful AI and make it easier for institutions to hold AI developers accountable.
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