Think tank · Policy · Est. 2023
CLAIR — the Center for Law & AI Risk — is a U.S.-based nonprofit center focused on building the scholarly field of “Law & AI Safety,” with an emphasis on using legal institutions and doctrine to reduce catastrophic and existential risks from advanced AI. CLAIR’s stated mission is to help build a community of legal scholars who study how law can respond to frontier AI’s safety-relevant properties, including hard-to-observe harms and fast capability change.
Programmatically, CLAIR’s core activities are field-building through (1) legal scholarship (research agendas and workshop-ready work spanning public and private law), and (2) convenings that bring together legal academics and other researchers to produce new work. Its research portfolio includes analyses of systemic regulation for frontier AI, liability-centered governance arguments, and “legal alignment” concepts—often framed as translating safety-relevant technical uncertainty into legal/institutional tools.
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CLAIR announced its 2026 Writers’ Retreat as an intentionally non-traditional, writing-focused retreat with roundtables and protected writing time; it includes accommodation/meals and a $1,000 honorarium.
CLAIR at Harvard Law School: Law and AI Risk Governance (Sept 22, 2025)CLAIR’s co-directors delivered a student-facing talk at Harvard Law School focused on legal research and governance problems for advanced AI risk, with time for Q&A and entry points for students.
Inaugural Roundtable on AI Safety Law (Apr 25–26, 2025)CLAIR held its inaugural two-day roundtable at the University of Alabama School of Law, convening roughly two dozen scholars to workshop legal frameworks for reducing catastrophic and existential AI risk across public-law, private-law, and institutional design themes.
Field-building announcement: “Open Questions in Law and AI Safety: An Emerging Research Agenda” (Lawfare)A Lawfare agenda piece explicitly points readers to the newly formed Center for Law & AI Risk (CLAIR) as a convening/community venue for scholars to workshop papers and exchange ideas.