States taking action

The State AI Collaborative is a nonprofit, nonpartisan platform that helps states navigate the policy opportunities and challenges of AI. We connect states to independent expertise and to one another, so they can learn and act with confidence and speed, and pilot new policy approaches together.

States are making consequential decisions about AI today across a range of important domains, including economic transitions, child safety, cybersecurity, model alignment and transparency, and more. We are building a network and dedicated support for effective decisionmaking.

For state partners, we host collaborative workshops and expert briefings, provide tailored research, and support pilot policy and learning projects.

AI is bringing rapid change to nearly every priority issue area for policymakers. With that change come foundational and pressing questions:

  • How can we protect and strengthen student learning, and prepare young people for a changing economy? 

  • How might AI affect workers, how can we prepare under uncertainty, and how can we best support workers and communities in navigating these changes?

  • How can we protect our water systems, power grids, and other critical infrastructure as threats grow?

  • How can we ensure that the most powerful AI systems are safe? 

  • What are the best tools for protecting people from AI-powered fraud, scams, and misinformation? 

  • How can we keep kids safe and support their well-being? 

States are working to address these fast-moving questions under extreme pressure and with severe bandwidth constraints.

We help in several ways:

Peer Exchange

Cross-state calls, working groups, and in-person convenings help officials compare approaches and learn faster together.

Expert Connections

We connect states with experts in universities and civil society directly and through briefings and dialogues.

Shared Projects

Groups of states use the Collaborative to take on common problems together, whether research, pilots, aligned approaches, or creating shared capacity.

Tailored Support

When an office needs more than a conversation, we step in, from catalyzing research and analysis to supporting additional capacity on policy topics.

Reed Schuler
Founding Executive Director

Reed Schuler is the founding executive director of the State AI Collaborative. Reed previously served as a senior policy advisor to Washington Governor Jay Inslee. At the federal level, Reed was a U.S. negotiator on the Paris Agreement, a member of the Secretary of State's Policy Planning Staff, and managing director for implementation and ambition in for Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry. He has also served as a senior advisor at MIT. Reed is a Visiting Fellow at the Oxford Martin School and a senior advisor to the Oxford Martin AI Governance Initiative. He holds a J.D. from Yale Law School and a B.A. from Pomona College.