Congress has passed no general AI statute, so the rules are being written everywhere else: executive orders, agency guidance, export controls, and the states.
Satya has worked at most of those junctures. At the White House he had a hand in the first-ever AI executive order and major technology export controls. At Americans for Responsible Innovation — the largest AI policy advocacy organization in Washington — he ran AI policy strategy as Senior Vice President of Government Affairs, including advocacy on the TAKE IT DOWN Act, now federal law, and the DEFIANCE Act, both targeting AI-generated deepfake abuse. The advocacy ran on coalitions he helped assemble: child-safety and anti-exploitation groups beside tech policy organizations behind the deepfake bills, more than eighty industry, civil society, university and research-lab signatories behind NIST's AI standards and testing work, and startup founders writing the administration on American leadership in AI. When Congress first attempted to preempt state AI laws, he helped defeat the effort, 99–1.
He writes regularly on AI policy at The Grand Resign.