• Affiliated faculty has grown from six to seventeen people from across Brown and beyond, who lend their time and expertise to various projects
• Public launch of the CNTR AISLE Portal, helping the public, journalists, researchers, and policymakers identify AI policy trends and assess the maturity of emerging proposals
• Held the inaugural CNTR Tech & Science Policy Summit, a student-led event that brings together researchers and legislators to find common understanding 
• The second cohort of AI & Policy summer school program will run this July, with The Watson School joining as sponsoring partner
• Started collaborations with various organizations to assess the behavior of large language models and designing effective audit methods
• CNTR Director and faculty co-chair ACM’s US Technology Policy Committee’s Subcommittee On AI And Algorithms
• Tomo Lazovich, CNTR Faculty, spoke at National Fair Housing Alliance symposium on responsible AI
• Diana Freed, CNTR Faculty, spoke at the "biggest cybersecurity event of the year"
• Isaac Sheidlower, CNTR PostDoc, spoke at WeRobot 2026 in Berlin
• CNTR Undergrad, Emily Hong, Presented to Members of Parliament, Senators, and AI Minister of Canada
• Socially Responsible Computing Handbook finished its 2nd year of research, with significant updates to modules on accessibility, privacy, and AI.
• CNTR Faculty, Serena Booth, led a workshop on transforming research into policy briefs at the ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency
• Advised a local community initiative, the Digital Equity Project, to collect real-time data transfer rates and identify internet deserts in the state of Rhode Island.
• Testimony at state legislatures (RI, MD, CO, CT) on proposed AI legislation, as well as to the multistate working group on AI legislation. 

• We were covered by the Boston Globe on the public launch of our CNTR AISLE Portal.
• We’ve been called the “new kid with serious chops” by a University of Chicago Law School metaanalysis on AI trackers.
• Two Brown professors contributed to a Brookings publication on the future of work in the age of AI.
• Suresh Venkatasubramanian is regularly quoted in the press and sought out for writing, including in publications like WIRED, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Tech Policy Press, Washington Post, the New York Times, Rolling Stone, and TIME. 

• ACLU: Together we published a report on how computational tools can help advocates quickly hone in on key aspects of legislative proposals. 
• PIT-UN: The CNTR received support from the Public Interest Technology University Network to support the Paragon Policy Fellowship, which places students in local government offices to help advise on AI Policy.
• AIPGWG: Suresh Venkatasubramanian is part of the AI Policy and Governance Working Group coordinated by Alondra Nelson’s Science, Technology, and Social Values Lab, and has coauthored a series of policy briefs on open source, AI, international governance, and AI assurance. 

This coming year, we’re looking forward to:

• Creative collaboration with artists, making science accessible to more people by the release of a Sci-Toons production on the Ethics of AI
• Sharing data on key decision makers and influencers for organizers, workers, and advocates by the development of a methodological protocol for powermapping
• Surfacing contributions to the advancement of technology made by gender-marginalized and disabled inventors throughout history
• Guiding students on their career journey by unearthing career pathways that blend technology and social sciences from multiple perspectives
• and more!