From Comparison to Conversation: Asia’s Role in Global AI Regulation

Discussions of AI regulation often revolve around comparisons to a perceived global benchmark, with the EU AI Act positioned as the leading model. This panel shifts the lens. We explore what can be learned from the wide range of AI governance strategies developing across Asia. Governments in the region are experimenting with diverse regulatory tools, institutional structures, and policy priorities that reflect their unique social, economic, and technological contexts. By bringing these approaches into conversation, the panel aims to broaden the global regulatory dialogue and surface insights that may otherwise be overlooked in Eurocentric or single-model comparisons. Please help us get a headcount for dinner by registering here.

Dinner will be catered from Giggling Rice Thai.

Speakers:

Anupam Chander, Professor of Law and Technology at Georgetown Law School – expert on the global regulation of new technologies

Urs Gasser, Chair of Thailand’s International Policy Advisory Panel on AI; Dean of the TUM School of Social Sciences and Technology and Rector of the Munich School of Politics and Public Policy (formerly Executive Director of Berkman Klein)

Rui Guo, 2024-25 Visiting Scholar at the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies (formerly Law Professor at Renmin University of China, teaching about the ethics of AI)

Moderator: Justin Curl ‘26, Advisor at Cognition