What is Pioneering Oversight?

In this weekly newsletter, I’ll provide a recap of emerging technology regulations, news, events, and research.

Periodically, I’ll publish in-depth analyses of regulation-related newsworthy events, reports on individual states’ regulatory frameworks, and provide expert commentary on the difficulties of regulating emerging technologies.

Who writes this?

I’m Kelly Crawford, an expert at the intersection of emerging technology and law, co-founder and board member at Forward Horizon Group, an international consulting firm, and a veteran of the U.S. Navy.

After nine years in the U.S. Navy, I earned a master’s degree from The Fletcher School, primarily studying and researching the impact of emerging technology on international security and international law. I now live in Seattle, attending law school and focusing my time on examining the tensions emerging technology creates in our Constitution.

Pioneering Oversight is my way of consolidating the growing patchwork of emerging technology regulation across the United States, identifying trends, and providing insights and lessons learned to people across all sectors, industries, and organizations trying to navigate this new frontier.

Who should subscribe?

Plenty of resources explain how emerging technology works, what to do with it, how it will impact society, and, unfortunately, try to predict the future. This Substack is different. Instead, it is concerned with how (or whether) society chooses to regulate technology, what the regulations say, and whether they have the intended effect.

People who will find this publication helpful are professionals, staffers, politicians, academics, techies, community members, private sector investors, entrepreneurs, or anyone trying to pioneer (or navigate) safe, fair, and effective regulation on the emerging tech frontier.