Policy Advice and Opinion

Matthew van der Merwe, Ketan Ramakrishnan, and Markus Anderljung recently published this piece on Lawfare.

We welcome the opportunity to respond to the Request for Information (RFI) Related to NIST’s Assignments Under Sections 4.1, 4.5 and 11 of the Executive Order Concerning AI. We offer the following submission for your...

With the increasing integration of frontier large language models (LLMs) into society and the economy, decisions related to their training, deployment, and use have far-reaching implications...

In this written testimony to the U.S. Senate's bipartisan AI Insights Forum, GovAI Economics of AI Lead Anton Korinek encourages lawmakers to engage in scenario planning to prepare the workforce for advances in AI.

Markus Anderljung and Paul Scharre recently published this piece in Foreign Affairs

We welcome the opportunity to respond to the OSTP Request for Information on National Priorities for Artificial Intelligence and look forward to future opportunities to provide additional input. We offer the following...

We welcome the opportunity to respond to the NTIA’s AI Accountability Policy Request for Comment and look forward to future opportunities to provide additional input. We offer the following...

We are pleased to see the publication of the UK’s Future of Compute Review. However, we also believe there is a significant missed opportunity: the review does not address how to ensure that compute is used responsibly or how...

The proposed EU AI Act is the first comprehensive attempt to regulate AI in a major jurisdiction. This article analyses Article 9, the key risk management provision in the AI Act. It gives an overview of the regulatory...

We welcome the opportunity to respond to the Future of Compute Review’s call for evidence...Our response focuses on the future of compute used for Artificial Intelligence (AI). In particular, we emphasise the risks posed by...

This report gives comments on the interim report of the National AI Research Resource (NAIRR) Task Force. The key recommendations are: Provides researchers with access to pre-trained models by providing infrastructure...

The recent news of Elon Musk attempting to take over Twitter has put a spotlight on the implications of free speech in the age of social media. The decisions made by these companies as to what content is...

In this Brookings working paper, Korinek and Balwit discuss the AI alignment problem – how to ensure that AI systems pursue the goals that we want them to pursue. This article distinguishes two types of alignment problems...

This report gives comments on the Initial Draft of the NIST AI Risk Management Framework (AI RMF). The key recommendations are to put more emphasis on low-probability, high-impact risks, especially catastrophic risks to...

The range of application of artificial intelligence (AI) is vast, as is the potential for harm. Growing awareness of potential risks from AI systems has spurred action to address those risks while eroding confidence in AI...

With the development of ever more advanced artificial intelligence (AI) systems, some of the world’s leading scientists, AI engineers and businesspeople have expressed concerns that humanity may lose control over its creations...

Out of the wreckage of the Second World War, the UK transformed itself. It rebuilt its shattered economy. It founded the NHS. It created national insurance. And it helped establish international institutions like the United...

Much AI governance work involves preparation for a constitutional moment: an opportunity to create long-lasting, decision-shaping, institutions. Doing this well is a formidable task. It requires a fine balance. Institutions...

Countries, companies, and universities are increasingly competing over top-tier artificial intelligence (AI) researchers. Where are these researchers likely to immigrate and what affects their immigration decisions? We...

Progress in artificial intelligence and related forms of automation technologies threatens to reverse the gains that developing countries and emerging markets have experienced from integrating into the world economy over the...

In this response, we focus our analysis and recommendations on the proposed “ecosystem of trust” and associated international efforts. We believe these measures can mitigate the risks that this tec...

Any technology as potent as AI will also bring new risks, and it is encouraging that many of today’s AI policy initiatives include risk mitigation as part of their mandate. Before risks can be miti...

The idea of an artificial intelligence (AI) arms race between China and the United States is ubiquitous. Before 2016, there were fewer than 300 Google results for “AI arms race” and only a handful of articles that mentioned the...

In October 2016, the newly formed Defense Innovation Board released its first set of recommendations. (The board, an advisory body to senior leadership in the US Defense Department, contains repres...