AI governance, ethics, and policy — how institutions, standards, and public debate shape our life with artificial intelligence.
Dr. Daniel S. Schiff is an Assistant Professor of Technology Policy at Purdue University and founding Co-Director of GRAIL, the Governance and Responsible AI Lab. Before academia, he served as the founding Responsible AI Lead at JP Morgan Chase & Co. and Secretary of the IEEE 7010 standard, the first industry AI ethics standard. His research on AI governance, deepfakes, public attitudes, and education has been published in venues including the American Political Science Review, Management Science, Policy Studies Journal, and AAAI/ACM AIES, and featured in outlets like the New York Times, Washington Post, CNN, The Atlantic, and MIT Technology Review.
Research Themes
View all →Research on how AI becomes a political and regulatory issue, including agenda-setting dynamics, partisan polarization, international governance frameworks, and the politics of AI policy formation.
26+ publicationsResearch on how organizations, standards bodies, and industry practitioners govern AI, including technical standards, the principles-to-practice gap, and responsible AI in sectors like healthcare.
13+ publicationsResearch on political deepfakes, AI-generated content, detection benchmarking and fairness, and watermarking, labeling, and governance responses to synthetic media.
5+ publicationsEmpirical research on how publics understand, perceive, and engage with AI, including public opinion surveys, democratic participation, and the role of expert information in shaping AI attitudes.
14+ publicationsResearch on how AI ethics and literacy are taught, assessed, and institutionalized, spanning curriculum design, undergraduate computing ethics education, and AI literacy measurement.
18+ publicationsResearch on worker well-being, labor-market change, AI governance and ethics skills, workforce transitions, and the political economy of AI-driven value extraction.
4+ publicationsRecent Work
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Browse all →AI Governance and Regulatory Archive (AGORA)
Searchable archive of AI-related legislation, regulations, and governance documents from around the world — a GRAIL and Georgetown CSET collaboration.
Portal arrow_forwardPolitical Deepfakes Incidents Database (PDID)
Structured records of political deepfake incidents — incident type, actors, platform context, detection status, and governance response — built for research and journalism.
Dataset arrow_forwardAI Survey Hub for Attitudes and Research Exchange (AI SHARE)
Survey instruments, codebooks, and methodological notes for studying public attitudes toward AI — built for cross-context replication and comparative research.
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Guides for joining GRAIL, applying to graduate programs, learning research methods, and building careers in responsible technology and policy.
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