MIT leaders and scholars have released policy briefs outlining a framework for governing AI in the U.S. The main paper suggests extending current regulatory and liability approaches to oversee AI, leveraging existing government entities. The framework emphasizes defining the purpose of AI tools and enabling regulations to fit specific applications. The proposal calls for AI providers to clearly state their intent, establishes guardrails to prevent misuse, and introduces new oversight capacity. The framework addresses ethical considerations, a generative AI skills gap, and proposes a self-regulatory organization for AI governance. MIT aims to balance AI advancement with responsible oversight. Academic institutions have an important role to play both in terms of expertise about technology and in terms of the interplay of technology and society. It reflects what’s going to be important to governing this well: policymakers who think about social systems and technology together.