AI Reports · GovAI (Oxford) · 2026-10-17 · Research paper
AI Regulation Governing Through the Cloud March 2024 Research Paper Lennart Heim, Tim Fist, Janet Egan, Sihao Huang, Stephen Zekany, Robert Trager, Michael A Osborne, Noa Zilberman Compute providers c
The paper argues that compute providers should have legal obligations and ethical responsibilities in AI regulation, acting as securers, record keepers, verifiers of customer activity and enforcers. It examines how these functions can be performed in a targeted, privacy-conscious way, using non-confidential data to infer workload type and compute consumed. Using US Executive Order 14110 as a case study, it outlines record-keeping requirements and explores how verification and enforcement could form a broader oversight scheme.