“What I learnt co-leading an AI Safety bootcamp for legal and governance practitioners” by Katalina Hernandez

<p> AI safety has gone mainstream. More people than ever want to work on AI safety research, and there are real policy wins in the US, the UK and Europe. </p><p> But political will and market incentives are now the bottleneck, and policy officers can't own correct implementation alone.</p><p> Having built a Responsible AI program at an Accenture joint venture, I know profit-driven companies are hard to steer, but also that people inside them can shift practice in ways that compound: tighter contractual clauses, more scrutiny of vendors and suppliers, fewer ways for providers to get away with non-compliance. </p><p> The EU has no native frontier labs, but it is a huge market (with a regulatory body that has an AI safety unit!),</p><p> That leverage only works if the professionals implementing AI safety legislation, and drafting the legal mechanisms behind it, understand the technical picture: how to read the research, and where safety promises break down. </p><p> The market should be choosing not the most capable models, but the partners with the strongest incentives towards safety, and only a community with this knowledge can spread that.</p><p> Earlier in September, ML4Good, in partnership with EquiStamp, ran the first European Seminar on [...]</p> <p>---</p><p><strong>Outline:</strong></p><p>(03:09) 1. Professionals with impressive backgrounds can feel intellectually isolated- in Legal, too.</p><p>(05:20) 2. Practitioners are already reading AI safety research. They do not always know how to interpret it.</p><p>(06:50) 3. Non-technical people who are directly responsible for technical consequences have an almost inexhaustible need to understand</p><p>(08:25) 4. Legal and governance practitioners deeply appreciate technical safety talent</p><p>(10:09) 5. AI safety incentives and market incentives are not necessarily as separate as we can assume- and it's a neglected lever</p><p>(11:49) And who understands that dependency particularly well?</p><p>(13:03) 6. People in these functions understand that they can just do things</p><p>(14:40) 7. Us lawyers? We're also nerds!</p> <p><i>The original text contained 3 footnotes which were omitted from this narration.</i> </p><p>---</p>

<p><b>First published:</b><br/>

October 3rd, 2026 </p>

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