Noam Kolt
Faculty of Law and School of Computer Science and Engineering
Hebrew University
I lead the Governance of AI Lab (GOAL). Our mission is to support safe and ethical AI through sociotechnical research that integrates methods from law, computer science, and the social sciences. Areas of focus currently include the governance of AI agents and a combination of empirical, doctrinal, and policy work to improve the legal safety and compliance of AI systems.
► To apply for research opportunities at GOAL, you can complete this short form. In addition, I sometimes supervise projects through LawAI, PIBBSS, and SPAR.
Previously, I completed my doctoral studies at the University of Toronto, during which time I served as a research advisor to Google DeepMind and was a member of OpenAI’s GPT-4 red team. I have practiced international law and corporate law, and held fellowships at the University of Toronto’s Centre for Ethics and Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society, where I am now a faculty affiliate. I am also an affiliate at the Machine Intelligence and Normative Theory Lab and the Institute for Law & AI.
I have published in law reviews (e.g. Washington University Law Review, Notre Dame Law Review, Berkeley Technology Law Journal, Yale Law & Policy Review), computer science venues (e.g. NeurIPS, ICML, ACM FAccT, AIES), and general-interest journals (e.g. Patterns, Science).
Selected Publications
Law
Governing AI Agents, 101 Notre Dame Law Review (forthcoming)
Algorithmic Black Swans, 101 Washington University Law Review 1177 (2024)
Computer Science
Regulating Advanced Artificial Agents (equal lead author, with Michael Cohen, Yoshua Bengio, Gillian Hadfield, and Stuart Russell) Science (2024)
Technical Reports and Preprints
The AI Agent Index (equal lead author, with Stephen Casper, and others) (2025) - raw data available on project website: https://aiagentindex.mit.edu/
IDs for AI Systems (with Alan Chan and others) RegML @ NeurIPS (2024)