Nicholas Caputo is a legal researcher at the Oxford Martin AI Governance Initiative (AIGI). Caputo’s work focuses on frontier AI regulation, legal alignment, open source AI, and how to build governance institutions for the AI era. 

Caputo’s current papers under review are “Administrative Law’s Fourth Settlement: AI and the Capability-Accountability Trap” and “Legal Alignment for Safe and Ethical AI.” His legal scholarship has been published in the Stanford Technology Law Review and the Yale Journal of Law and Technology. Caputo has also presented his work in technical venues including NeurIPS. He has experience with strategic litigation and policy advocacy in the United States and in the European Union. 

Prior to taking up his position at AIGI, Caputo graduated with honors from Harvard Law School focusing on law and technology, constitutional law, and public international law. Before law school, he taught debate in China for two years during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. He speaks French and Mandarin Chinese.