Matthijs Maas

Senior Research Fellow

Institute for Law & AI

Biography

I am 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.

I am the author of “Architectures of Global AI Governance: From Technological Change to Human Choice” (OUP 2025).

My 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.

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Interests

Artificial Intelligence Governance
Effects of AI on International Law
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

Featured Publications

Matthijs Maas, José Villalobos (2023). International AI Institutions: A Literature Review of Models, Examples, and Proposals. AI Foundations Report 1.

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Matthijs Maas (2021). Aligning AI Regulation to Sociotechnical Change. Oxford Handbook on AI Governance.

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Matthijs Maas (2021). Artificial Intelligence Governance Under Change: Foundations, Facets, Frameworks. University of Copenhagen.

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Charlotte Stix, Matthijs Maas (2021). Bridging the gap: the case for an ‘Incompletely Theorized Agreement’ on AI policy. AI and Ethics.

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Peter Cihon, Matthijs Maas, Luke Kemp (2020). Fragmentation and the Future: Investigating Architectures for International AI Governance. Global Policy.

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Seth D. Baum, Stuart Armstrong, Timoteus Ekenstedt, Olle Häggström, Robin Hanson, Karin Kuhlemann, Matthijs Maas, James D. Miller, Markus Salmela, Anders Sandberg, Kaj Sotala, Phil Torres, Alexey Turchin, Roman V. Yampolskiy (2019). Long-term trajectories of human civilization. Foresight.

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