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Releasing New AI Policy Project

  • Article Published April 17, 2025

We are pleased to release a new policy project from our Summer 2024 Science & Technology Policy Fellows Jordan Loewen-Colón and Ayodele Odubela, with support from Jeanette Jordan.

The project, Implementing an AI Evaluation Framework in Utah, proposes ideas to help the State of Utah’s Office of Artificial Intelligence Policy (OAIP) adopt a standardized evaluation framework for its AI partners. The project also recommends that OAIP publicize these criteria and a running list of its AI Learning Lab participants. 

Jordan and Ayodele created the AI partner evaluation framework known as PIONR (Prosperity, Integrity and Innovation, Openness, Natural Resource Stewardship, and Respect for Culture and Values) to help Utah ensure its evaluation criteria were transparent and make Utah a model for responsible AI development. 

Since the initial recommendation was made in 2024, the OAIP created a webpage listing companies in regulatory migration and has already begun adopting aspects of the PIONR Framework. Read the full project and its solutions here.

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