Every December, the Society for Risk Analysis holds its Annual Meeting. It is the leading professional conference for risk analysis. GCRI has participated in the Annual Meeting in most years since 2010, as detailed here.

This year, GCRI is involved in three presentations. Each presentation is led by one or more early-career  researchers who connected with GCRI via this year’s advising and collaboration program. GCRI is excited to provide these researchers with the opportunity to attend the SRA Annual Meeting and share their research. The research to be presented …

In a new post on the Effective Altruism Forum, GCRI’s Seth Baum and Jonas Schuett from the Legal Priorities Project make The case for long-term corporate governance of AI. Baum and Schuett make three main points in their post. First, the long-term corporate governance of AI, which they define as the corporate governance of AI that could affect the long-term future, is an important area of long-term AI governance. Second, corporate governance of AI has been relatively neglected by communities that focus on long-term AI …

View the paper “Artificial Intelligence, Systemic Risks, and Sustainability”

Artificial intelligence is increasingly a factor in a range of global catastrophic risks. This paper studies the role of AI in two closely related domains. The first is systemic risks, meaning risks involving interconnected networks, such as supply chains and critical infrastructure systems. The second is environmental sustainability, meaning risks related to the natural environment’s ability to sustain human civilization on an ongoing basis. The paper is led by Victor Galaz, Deputy Director of the Stockholm Resilience Centre, …

Dear friends,

This month GCRI announces a new research paper, Corporate governance of artificial intelligence in the public interest. Private industry is at the forefront of AI technology, making corporate governance a vital area of activity. The paper surveys the wide range of opportunities available to improve AI corporate governance so that it better advances the public interest. It includes opportunities for people both inside and outside corporations.

The paper is co-authored by Peter Cihon of GitHub, Jonas Schuett of Goethe University Frankfurt and the Legal Priorities …