Terah Lyons
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AI-policy practitioner. Founding Executive Director of the Partnership on AI (PAI) — the multi-stakeholder nonprofit founded by Amazon, Apple, DeepMind, Facebook, Google, IBM, Microsoft, the ACLU, OpenAI, and the MacArthur Foundation to address the societal implications of machine intelligence.
Prior to PAI, Policy Advisor to the U.S. Chief Technology Officer at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) under the Obama administration; led a portfolio covering AI, robotics, and intelligent transportation. Co-directed the White House Future of Artificial Intelligence Initiative, the cross-stakeholder consultation that produced the 2016 Preparing for the Future of Artificial Intelligence and National Artificial Intelligence Research and Development Strategic Plan reports — early-canonical anchors for U.S. federal AI policy.
Now adjacent to multiple governance-and-policy initiatives (CNAS, Obama Foundation, Chatham House) and a member of the AI Index Steering Committee.
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- 2026-04-28-ai-index-report-2025 — co-author, 8th edition.
- 2026-04-30-ai-index-report-2026 — co-author, 9th edition.