SYS 478: Fall 2026

Tue, Nov 24

Module 6. Governing Futures That Do Not Yet Exist

How Can We Govern an Emerging Technology Before Its Uses Are Settled?

A full anticipatory case-study exercise: deployment conditions, domains, scenarios, and governance.

Topic / Focus

Today is a full anticipatory case-study exercise: you will map deployment conditions, domains, and scenarios, and apply governance frameworks to a technology before its uses are settled, using anticipatory governance and historical comparisons such as Asilomar and the EU AI Act.

Format: Full class · Lesson template: Case / BRAID Analysis

Guiding Questions

  • What deployment conditions, domains, and scenarios should you map before a technology’s uses are settled?
  • How does anticipatory governance differ from regulating a technology after the fact?
  • What can Asilomar and the EU AI Act teach us as points of comparison?

In This Class

In this meeting, we will:

  • walk through the anticipatory governance framework and how-to-use guide
  • apply BRAID Case Study deployment scenarios to a governance synthesis exercise
  • compare the exercise to historical cases such as Asilomar and the EU AI Act