Dr Jon Truby, UNESCO Chair on AI Law and Sustainability at the Centre for International Law, National University of Singapore, participated in the Workshop on Law-Following AI 2026, held from 10 to 12 June 2026 at Jesus College, Cambridge, United Kingdom.

The workshop was hosted by the Institute for Law & AI and the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence at Cambridge University. It brought together scholars from law, artificial intelligence and related fields to examine how agentic AI systems can be designed to follow human laws in a reliable and legally accountable manner.

As AI agents become increasingly capable of taking actions on behalf of users, organisations and institutions, the question of legal compliance is moving from a technical design issue to a wider governance concern. The workshop considered how AI systems should identify relevant legal rules, assess whether a proposed action may violate the law and operate within legal limits, particularly in high-stakes domains where errors may affect rights, public trust and institutional responsibility.

Key questions discussed at the workshop included which laws agentic AI systems should follow, how strictly those systems should follow legal requirements, how they should reason about the legality of proposed actions and in what contexts law should require AI agents to be law-following.

Dr Truby’s participation reflects CIL’s continuing engagement with the legal and governance challenges raised by emerging AI systems. It also connects with the work of the UNESCO Chair on AI Law and Sustainability, which examines the relationship between AI governance, legal accountability, institutional design, sustainability and the rule of law.