person

James Hendler
RPI Tetherless World Constellation director; semantic web pioneer
RPI professor and Semantic Web co-originator. Long-time advocate for structured-data AI and for governance grounded in computational pragmatics.
current Director of the Institute for Data Exploration and Applications, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Strategy positions
Governance firstmixed
Lead with regulation, treaties, liability regimesArgues AI governance needs standards-level, not just legal-level, interventions; AI trust requires structured traceability of data provenance.
AI governance won't work if the data layer isn't governable. You cannot regulate what you cannot trace.
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Record last updated 2026-04-25.