Matthijs Maas

Matthijs Maas

Senior Research Fellow

Institute for Law & AI

Biography

Dr. Matthijs Maas is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Law & AI; an Associate Fellow at the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence (University of Cambridge), and a non-residential research associate at King’s College, University of Cambridge.

His work focuses on mapping theories of change for advanced AI governance, international institutional designs for AI, the effect of AI on international law, and arms control regimes for military uses of AI technology.

Matthijs received his PhD in Law from the University of Copenhagen, and a MSc in International Relations from the University of Edinburgh. He has previous experience working at The Hague Centre for Strategic Studies and the Dutch Embassy in Beirut, amongst others.

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Interests
  • Artificial Intelligence Governance
  • Effects of AI on International Law
  • Existential risk mitigation
  • International Institutional & Regime Design
Education
  • PhD in Law, 2021

    University of Copenhagen

  • MSc International Relations, 2013

    University of Edinburgh

  • BA in Arts, 2012

    University College Utrecht, University of Utrecht

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