Publications
Books, articles, chapters, reports and working papers, newest first.37 items. Each title leads to a page with the abstract and a citation.
2027
Introduction (SSRN) · Chapter 1 preprint (SSRN) · Cite José Jaime Villalobos, Matthijs Maas, Christoph Winter. International Catastrophe Law: From Nuclear Weapons to Advanced AI. Cambridge University Press (forthcoming, expected Q1 2027). Introduction (SSRN) · Chapter 1 preprint (SSRN)
2026
PDF · Lawfare · LawAI · Cite Cullen O'Keefe, Christoph Winter, Matthijs Maas, Janna Tay, Yonathan A. Arbel, and 27 others. “Proceedings of the 2025 Workshop on Law-Following AI.” Lawfare Research Report No. 26-8. PDF
2025
PDF · DOI · LawAI · Cite Matthijs Maas, Tobi Olasunkanmi. “Treaty-Following AI.” Institute for Law & AI Working Paper No. 1-2025. PDF
Open Access · Print · Cite Matthijs Maas. Architectures of Global AI Governance: From Technological Change to Human Choice. Oxford University Press. Open Access · Print
LawAI · Cite Cullen O'Keefe, Matthijs Maas, Janna Tay. “Future Frontiers for Research in Law and AI.” Institute for Law & AI (blog post). LawAI
PDF · DOI · SSRN · LawAI · Cite José Jaime Villalobos, Matthijs Maas. “Beyond a Piecemeal Approach: Prospects for a Framework Convention on AI.” In: P. Hacker et al. (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of the Foundations and Regulation of Generative AI (Oxford University Press). PDF
PDF · arXiv · Cite Brian D. Earp, Sebastian Porsdam Mann, Mateo Aboy, and 33 others, Matthijs Maas, and 24 others. “Relational Norms for Human-AI Cooperation.” arXiv preprint arXiv:2502.12102. PDF
2024
PDF · Oxford Martin · LawAI · Cite Claire Dennis, Stephen Clare, Rebecca Hawkins, Morgan Simpson, Eva Behrens, Gillian Diebold, Zaheed Kara, Ruofei Wang, Robert F. Trager, Matthijs Maas, Noam Kolt, Markus Anderljung, Konstantin Pilz, Anka Reuel, Malcolm Murray, Lennart Heim, Marta Ziosi. “What Should Be Internationalised in AI Governance?” Oxford Martin AI Governance Initiative. PDF
PDF · Oxford Martin · Carnegie · Cite Hadrien Pouget, Claire Dennis, Jon Bateman, Robert F. Trager, Renan Araujo, Haydn Belfield, Belinda Cleeland, Malou Estier, Gideon Futerman, Oliver Guest, Carlos Ignacio Gutierrez, Vishnu Kannan, Casey Mahoney, Matthijs Maas, Charles Martinet, Jakob Mökander, Kwan Yee Ng, Seán Ó hÉigeartaigh, Aidan Peppin, Konrad Seifert, Scott Singer, Maxime Stauffer, Caleb Withers, Marta Ziosi. “The Future of International Scientific Assessments of AI's Risks.” Oxford Martin AI Governance Initiative and Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. PDF
PDF · DOI · LawAI · Cite Charlie Bullock, Suzanne Van Arsdale, Mackenzie Arnold, Matthijs Maas, Christoph Winter. “Existing Authorities for Oversight of Frontier AI Models.” LawAI Working Paper Series, Institute for Law & AI. PDF
PDF · DOI · Longer preprint (PDF) · Preprint (SSRN) · Cite Lalitha Sundaram, Matthijs Maas, SJ Beard. “From Evaluation to Action: Ethics, Epistemology, and Extreme Technological Risk.” In: Catherine Rhodes (ed.), Managing Extreme Technological Risk (World Scientific), pp. 185–234. PDF
2023
PDF · DOI · SSRN · Institute for Law & AI · Cite Matthijs Maas. “Advanced AI Governance: A literature review of problems, options, and proposals.” AI Foundations Report 4. PDF
PDF · DOI · Cite Lena Trabucco, Matthijs Maas. “Technology Ties: The Rise and Roles of Military AI Strategic Partnerships.” SSRN working paper (November 2023). PDF
PDF · DOI · SSRN · Institute for Law & AI · Cite Matthijs Maas. “Concepts in Advanced AI Governance: A Literature Review of Key Terms and Definitions.” AI Foundations Report 3. PDF
PDF · DOI · SSRN · Institute for Law & AI · Cite Matthijs Maas. “AI is Like... A Literature Review of AI Metaphors and Why They Matter for Policy.” AI Foundations Report 2. PDF
PDF · DOI · SSRN · Institute for Law & AI · Cite Matthijs Maas, José Villalobos. “International AI Institutions: A Literature Review of Models, Examples, and Proposals.” AI Foundations Report 1. PDF
PDF · DOI · SSRN · Cite Matthijs Maas, Kayla Lucero-Matteucci, Di Cooke. “Military Artificial Intelligence as a Contributor to Global Catastrophic Risk.” In: The Era of Global Risk: An Introduction to Existential Risk Studies (Open Book Publishers). PDF
PDF · DOI · Cite Jeroen K. G. Hopster, Matthijs Maas. “The Technology Triad: Disruptive AI, Regulatory Gaps and Value Change.” AI and Ethics 4(4): 1051–1069. PDF
2022
DOI · Verfassungsblog · Cite Matthijs Maas. “Paths Untaken: The History, Epistemology and Strategy of Technological Restraint, and Lessons for AI.” Verfassungsblog. Verfassungsblog
2021
PDF · SSRN · Cite Matthijs Maas. “Aligning AI Regulation to Sociotechnical Change.” In: Justin Bullock, Baobao Zhang, Yu-Che Chen, Johannes Himmelreich, Matthew Young, Anton Korinek & Valerie Hudson (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of AI Governance (Oxford University Press). PDF
SSRN · Slides · Cite Matthijs Maas. “Artificial Intelligence Governance Under Change: Foundations, Facets, Frameworks.” University of Copenhagen. SSRN
PDF · SSRN · Cite Matthijs Maas. “AI, Governance Displacement, and the (De)Fragmentation of International Law.” International Studies Association Annual Convention - 2021. PDF
PDF · DOI · SSRN · Cite Hin-Yan Liu, Matthijs Maas. “'Solving for X?' Towards a Problem-Finding Framework to Ground Long-Term Governance Strategies for Artificial Intelligence.” Futures 126: 102672. PDF
PDF · DOI · SSRN · MAIEI Research Summary · Video · Cite Charlotte Stix, Matthijs Maas. “Bridging the gap: the case for an ‘Incompletely Theorized Agreement’ on AI policy.” AI and Ethics. PDF
2020
DOI · Cite Hin-Yan Liu, Kristian Cedervall Lauta, Matthijs Maas. “Apocalypse Now? Initial Lessons from COVID-19 for the Governance of Existential and Global Catastrophic Risks.” Journal of International Humanitarian Legal Studies 11(2). DOI
PDF · DOI · Cite Peter Cihon, Matthijs Maas, Luke Kemp. “Fragmentation and the Future: Investigating Architectures for International AI Governance.” Global Policy 11(5): 545–556. PDF
PDF · DOI · Cite Hin-Yan Liu, Matthijs Maas, John Danaher, Luisa Scarcella, Michaela Lexer, Leonard Van Rompaey. “Artificial Intelligence and Legal Disruption: A New Model for Analysis.” Law, Innovation and Technology 12(2): 205–258. PDF
PDF · arXiv · Cite John-Clark Levin, Matthijs Maas. “Roadmap to a Roadmap: How Could We Tell When AGI Is a 'Manhattan Project' Away?” Proceedings of ECAI/EPAI 2020. PDF
PDF · DOI · Portuguese translation (2026) · Cite Keith J. Hayward, Matthijs Maas. “Artificial intelligence and crime: A primer for criminologists.” Crime, Media, Culture 17(2): 209–233. PDF
PDF · DOI · Arxiv · Cite Peter Cihon, Matthijs Maas, Luke Kemp. “Should Artificial Intelligence Governance be Centralised?: Design Lessons from History.” Proceedings of the AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society 2020: 228–234. PDF
2019
PDF · HTML · Cite Matthijs Maas. “International Law Does Not Compute: Artificial Intelligence and The Development, Displacement or Destruction of the Global Legal Order.” Melbourne Journal of International Law 20(1): 29–56. PDF
PDF · DOI · Cite Matthijs Maas. “Innovation-Proof Governance for Military AI?” Journal of International Humanitarian Legal Studies 10(1): 129–157. PDF
PDF · DOI · BBC · GCRI · Cite 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. “Long-term trajectories of human civilization.” Foresight 21(1): 53–83. PDF
PDF · DOI · Cite Matthijs Maas. “How viable is international arms control for military artificial intelligence? Three lessons from nuclear weapons.” Contemporary Security Policy 40(3): 285–311. PDF
2018
PDF · DOI · Cite Matthijs Maas. “Regulating for 'Normal AI Accidents': Operational Lessons for the Responsible Governance of Artificial Intelligence Deployment.” Proceedings of the 2018 AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society. PDF
DOI · Cite Matthijs Maas. “Two Lessons from Nuclear Arms Control for the Responsible Governance of Military Artificial Intelligence.” In: Envisioning Robots in Society – Power, Politics, and Public Space, Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications vol. 311 (IOS Press). DOI
DOI · Open Access (2024 reprint) · Cite Hin-Yan Liu, Kristian Cedervall Lauta, Matthijs Maas. “Governing Boring Apocalypses: A New Typology of Existential Vulnerabilities and Exposures for Existential Risk Research.” Futures 102: 6–19. Open Access (2024 reprint)