Broadband Breakfast on September 2, 2026 – Global AI Regulation

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The Global AI Rulebook: Regulation, Risk and the Race for AI Leadership

Who gets to write the rules for artificial intelligence? From the EU AI Act and the U.S. NIST AI Risk Management Framework to emerging efforts through the G7, OECD and United Nations, countries are taking different approaches to managing AI risk, accountability and responsible development. This BroadbandLive discussion will examine the emerging global AI governance landscape and the growing tension between regulatory oversight and technological innovation. Are the world’s major AI frameworks beginning to converge, or are businesses facing an increasingly fragmented patchwork of rules? How much regulation is necessary to address risks around advanced AI? When does compliance become a barrier to innovation and global competitiveness?

Panelists

• Johannes Bauer, Professor of Media and Information, Michigan State University
• Lee Tiedrich, President & CEO of Tiedrich Global Strategies
• Kevin Frazier, Director of AI Innovation & Law, The University of Texas School of Law
• Ellen Goodman, Professor, Rutgers Law
• Drew Clark (moderator), CEO and Publisher, Broadband Breakfast

Johannes M. Bauer is Professor of Media and Information and the Director of the James H. and Mary B. Quello Center at Michigan State University. His research focuses on the innovation in emerging technologies including AI and wireless communications, digital infrastructure policy, and the interaction between regulation and innovation. From September 2023 through December 2024, he served as the Chief Economist in the Office of Economics and Analytics at the U.S. Federal Communications Commission.

Lee Tiedrich is a widely recognized leader in artificial intelligence, data, and emerging technologies working at the intersection of technology, business, law and policy.  With degrees in engineering and law, she served as a Senior AI Advisor to the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), as an OECD/GPAI consultant and expert, and as a Senior Adviser and contributor to the International Scientific Report on the Safety of Advanced AI, supported by more than 30 countries and multilateral organizations.  She was a partner at the global law firm Covington & Burling LLP and co-led the firm’s global and multidisciplinary AI practice.  She is the CEO and founder of Tiedrich Global Strategies, a member of the APCO Worldwide International Advisory Council, and a Strategic Advisor at Analysis Group.  She has held faculty positions at Duke University, the University of Pennsylvania, and the University of Maryland.  She is widely published and speaks regularly around the globe. 

Professor Kevin Frazier leads the AI Innovation and Law Program at the University of Texas School of Law and serves as a Senior Editor at Lawfare. His research focuses on how to design and update institutions to preserve the rule of law in the Age of AI. You can listen to his two cents on all things AI policy via the Scaling Laws podcast.

Ellen P. Goodman specializes in information policy law: AI governance, free speech, media policy, data ethics, and algorithmic cities. She is co-director and co-founder of the Rutgers Institute for Information Policy & Law and collaborates regularly with think tanks, government officials at all levels, and interdisciplinary researchers on tech policy. This work has led to grants from the Ford Foundation, Knight Foundation, Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, and others to advance transparency and accountability in the development and deployment of information technology.

Breakfast Media LLC CEO Drew Clark has led the Broadband Breakfast community since 2008. An early proponent of better broadband, better lives, he initially founded the Broadband Census crowdsourcing tool to collect and verify broadband data left unpublished by the Federal Communications Commission. As CEO and Publisher, Clark presides over the leading media community advocating for higher-capacity internet everywhere through topical, timely and intelligent coverage. Clark also served as head of the Partnership for a Connected Illinois, a state broadband initiative.