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Last week, Norm Ai hosted the inaugural Central Park AI Forum in New York, bringing together key leaders exploring the societal, legal and economic implications of frontier AI. The caliber of conversation was exactly what I envisioned when bringing together this group. Check out the highlight reel video below. Thank you @sriramk , @BasedMikeLee , @LHSummers , @chrislehane , @plaffont , @NewJerseyOAG , @tglocer , @WillKinzel , @CFTCberkovitz , @DavidZapolsky , @BenLawsky , @SusanEDudley , @arunanforct , @CFTCjohnson , @Lane_Dilg , and many others.

History shows technology can drive economic growth—but only if policy keeps up. To unlock AI’s potential while safeguarding the public, regulators must deepen their technical expertise and ensure that regulatory requirements factor in AI, @johnjnay and Troy A. Paredes of @NormativeAi argue. buff.ly/zxH7g5v

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Looking forward to exploring AI, regulation & compliance with expert panelists at our July 8 event! Hear from Dan Berkowitz, @reevebull, Cary Coglianese, @SusanEDudley, @MichaelMandel, @johnjnay, Troy Paredes & more. Register today and join us next month lu.ma/ci7uti92?tk=k9…

Today, Norm Ai announces the formation of two executive advisory boards to guide the development and deployment of AI agents in regulated industries. Our newly formed AI Agent Advisory Committee includes CTOs and other technology leaders from Blackstone, Vanguard, TIAA, New York Life Insurance Company, and Coatue. These executives bring deep expertise in enterprise systems and AI strategy, and  collaborate with Norm Ai to define the architectures, frameworks, and policies necessary to deploy AI agents responsibly at scale. In parallel, we are expanding our Regulatory Advisory Board to include Chief Compliance Officers and Chief Legal Officers from Blackstone, TIAA, New York Life Insurance Company, and Coatue, alongside former senior regulators. This board ensures that AI systems are designed with rigorous legal and compliance standards. The formation of these advisory boards follows Norm Ai’s recent $48M funding round led by institutions with more than $15 trillion in assets. It also reflects our ongoing commitment to building the regulatory infrastructure for safe, compliant, and effective AI agent deployment in the enterprise.

Norm Ai's raise announced in Times Square last week. Thank you to @Nasdaq for the feature.

Very happy to share this news and so proud of our team. Regulatory complexity is only growing, and Norm Ai is building the tools and setting the norms to help companies navigate an increasingly complex landscape.

Thrilled to welcome this newest cohort of the Norm Ai team. Paul Wooten, with a Harvard Law School J.D., is joining us from O'Melveny & Myers LLP. Paul previously served in legal roles at the FBI, Manhattan DA’s Office, and Kings County DA’s office. Luke Frankson, with a Harvard Law School J.D., is joining Norm after serving as Counsel at Two Sigma, Principal Counsel in the Department of Enforcement at FINRA, and an Attorney at Sidley Austin LLP. Yehuda Maes, with a Harvard Law School J.D., previously worked at Bain & Company, Citadel, and Blackrock, before Norm. He was also a Paratrooper in the Israeli Defense Forces. Michael Rosengard, with a Harvard Law School J.D., is joining us from Cleary Gottlieb in the Private Funds practice group in NYC. Previously, he was at Morgan Stanley. Daniel Campos, with a Harvard Business School MBA, joined Norm, with experience from Palantir Technologies and IBM, where he focused on Generative AI. Alina Crouch, with a Harvard University B.A., joined the Norm team after working at Retool, Yext, and Davis Polk & Wardwell. Browning Gentry joined Norm with 7 years of software engineering experience at Oscar Health, where he was a tech lead. He holds a B.S. in Industrial Engineering from Virginia Tech. Anna Nixon joined Norm after software engineering and product experience at Hashboard and Autodesk. She holds a B.S. in Computer Science from University of Pennsylvania. Sami Belkadi, with a B.S. from Princeton University, joined Norm after experience as a founding engineer and product manager in technology companies. Paul Dechov joined Norm with 7 years of experience as a Tech Lead at Automattic. Paul holds a B.S. in Computer Science from Cornell University. Olivia Zhang joined Norm from Citi. She was previously in investment banking at Citi and investing at Citi Ventures. Olivia holds a B.A. from University of California, Berkeley. David Thelander moved into a Senior Director of Business Development role at Norm. He previously served as SEC Enforcement Senior Counsel, Chief Legal Officer of Charles Schwab International, and Managing Director and Director at PwC, IBM and Deloitte. We look forward to all of their contributions as we continue to deploy the Norm Ai legal & compliance workflow platform across the Fortune 100. The Legal Engineering, AI Engineering, Platform Engineering, Product Engineering, Client Engagement, Sales, and Legal teams at Norm Ai continue to add talent in our NYC World Trade Center HQ. See our job listings for additional career opportunities!

Citi’s latest report, "Agentic AI: Finance & the ‘Do It For Me’ Economy", underscores the role of AI in shaping the future of finance. We’re honored that Norm Ai and John Nay (@johnjnay) are featured in this analysis. @Citi covered how the growth of regulatory complexity has made it difficult for companies to comply with the routine thousand-page regulation in a time-sensitive and cost-effective way, and how Norm Ai's Regulatory AI makes it possible to convert these complicated regulations into AI agents to facilitate compliance and operations.

I'm hiring more Legal Engineers at Norm Ai (@normativeai). You don't need to write any code, but you will engineer Regulatory AI alongside former regulators and AI engineers. Our Legal Engineering team at Norm is from: - Harvard Law - Stanford Law - Yale Law - Columbia Law - Sullivan & Cromwell LLP - Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP - Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP - FINRA - McKinsey - U.S. Marine Corps We automate compliance processes to make them more efficient & effective. In this role, you will work in our office in 7 World Trade Center alongside software engineers, & AI engineers to: - Provide nuanced analysis of complex and ambiguous rules. - Leverage our Norm Ai proprietary internal tools to further develop automated analyses of regulations. - Build Regulatory AI agents. - Deploy the Norm Ai compliance workflow automation platform across the rest of the Fortune 100. Requirements: - Juris Doctor. - 3+ years as a law firm associate. Link to apply is in the thread.

Thrilled to announce that today the Chief Compliance Officer of New York Life Insurance Company, Sandi Tillotson, joined our Regulatory Advisory Board. @NewYorkLife, a Fortune 100 company with a 179-year legacy, is the largest mutual life insurance company in the U.S. and one of the largest life insurers in the world. With a network of over 12,000 insurance agents, New York Life serves millions of clients nationwide. The company also manages more than $800 billion in investment assets, spanning diverse asset classes and global markets. Sandi leads NYL’s compliance programs across both its insurance and investment operations, while also overseeing the company’s ethics, anti-money laundering, and privacy programs. Prior to NYL, Ms. Tillotson served as a Litigation Associate with Bingham McCutchen LLP. She began her career in 1994 serving as a Public Affairs Specialist in the Office of Ambassador Madeleine K. Albright, U.S. Mission to the United Nations. Ms. Tillotson holds a J.D. from the Columbia University School of Law. Ms. Tillotson brings more than 20 years of legal and compliance leadership experience to the Norm Ai Regulatory Advisory Board, where she will be working closely with us as we deploy our AI-powered compliance workflow automation capabilities for large enterprises. John Nay (@johnjnay), CEO of Norm Ai, said: “We have already greatly benefited from learning from Sandi and her teams at New York Life, and we are thrilled to formally welcome her to our Regulatory Advisory Board.” “New York Life is committed to leveraging innovative technology, including for compliance, to deliver on our mission and enhance experiences for our clients, agents, and employees,” said Ms. Tillotson. “I have seen the Norm Ai team execute rapidly, and I am excited to advise their expansion across regulatory frameworks and compliance workflows.” Ms. Tillotson joins a broader Norm Ai Regulatory Advisory Board that includes a former White House Regulatory Czar, former SEC Commissioner, and the former Superintendent of the New York Department of Financial Services.

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We are thrilled today to welcome the newest set of Norm Ai team members: Lynn Lawson, Madison Marlow, Fiyi Adebekun, Noah Putnam, Dylan Ottney, and Ben Setel. - Dylan was an Attorney at Sullivan & Cromwell LLP. Prior to obtaining his J.D. from Harvard Law School, he served in the United States Marine Corps for 5 years. - Ben holds a Columbia Law School J.D. and a Cornell University Master of Engineering in Computer Science. He was previously an Attorney at Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP. - Lynn, a Norm Ai Legal Engineer, served as a FINRA Regulator in DC for 22 years after obtaining her J.D. - Madison, most recently an Attorney at Anderson Kill Wood & Bender, P.C., has recently published articles on AI & Insurance Law. - Fiyi was a machine learning engineer at Apple and holds a degree in Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. - Noah, after obtaining a degree in Computer Science from Harvard University, was an engineer at Palantir Technologies. We look forward to all of their contributions as we continue to define the category of Regulatory AI and deploy the Norm Ai compliance workflow automation platform across the Fortune 100. The AI Engineering, Legal Engineering, Software Engineering, and Client Implementation teams at Norm Ai continue to add world-class talent in our World Trade Center HQ. Check out our job listings for additional opportunities!

Excited to see Norm Ai on the CB Insights 2024 Fintech 100 as a key compliance & risk management solution.

👋 I've developed AI governance frameworks for startups, investors and F200 execs alongside policymakers, platforms, academics, civil society, and research orgs They're designed to function as defacto standards that compel key players to build more trustworthy, societally beneficial AI Below are some thoughts on AI policy opportunities I think a lot about feasibility, incentive alignment, knock on effects of proposed legislation, and risk scoring And take a systems approach to AI governance, usually prioritizing the following: > Transparency in frontier model development and preserving open source > Whistleblower protections > Preserving geopolitical competitiveness and America's ability to innovate (through, in part, housing catastrophic risk protections with the federal government and preventing a patchwork of state legislation) > Leveraging existing legal and liability frameworks. Modifying those as needed, given ⬆️ priorities Tech is evolving and these categories are mediated by an 'if-then' approach to emerging risks (~ 'If models display x capabilities, y mitigations are in place') This reflects my focus on evidence-based policymaking. I'm a student of superforecasting and believe in multi-sector expert collaboration, ensuring laws are grounded in a shared reality supported by data and research [Select references: fortune.com/2023/10/03/com… mlcommons.org/benchmarks/ai-… dataandtrustalliance.org]

This last year has seen an explosion of AI learning platforms focused on continuously producing the knowledge we need to learn effectively. We believe we're now on the cusp of a 2nd wave of AI learning that will radically transform ~how~ we learn. 5 hunches on what that looks like up on the @usv blog

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What an honor to receive the Robert Jervis Best International Security Book Award alongside co-winner @sh_grewal, and to be presented the award by Sumit Ganguly. My thanks to the APSA International Security section Jervis Award committee members for their service.

Norm Ai CEO John Nay (@johnjnay) was recently interviewed at the @NYSE where he shared how we are building Regulatory AI Agents, and why. In this video, John provides color on what a Regulatory AI Agent is. Norm Ai converts regulations into AI agents that can make dynamic compliance determinations.  This enables businesses to complete comprehensive compliance analyses nearly instantaneously, while also empowering clients to understand the basis for a determination and how to specifically improve content to make it more compliant. Through the Norm Regulatory AI Domain Specific Language, we produce a representation a human can view, and at the same time, enable the animation of the regulation into a live machine implementation. The Norm Ai Computational Law approach: 1. Ensures our Regulatory AI agents make highly reliable determinations of whether any content submitted by a user is compliant. 2. Provides deep explanations to humans. John shares more, and some case studies of specific regulations, in this interview.

John Nay, Founder and CEO of Norm AI, talks about pioneering the concept of Regulatory AI and the team dynamic needed to drive it on #NYSEFloorTalk with @JudyKShaw | @normativeai