Dear friends,

This month GCRI announces a new research paper, Collective action on artificial intelligence: A primer and review. Led by GCRI Director of Communications Robert de Neufville, the paper shows how different groups of people can work together to bring about AI outcomes that no one individual could bring about on their own. The paper provides a primer on basic collective action concepts, derived mainly from the political science literature, and reviews the existing literature on AI collective action. The paper serves to get people from diverse interdisciplinary backgrounds up to speed on the topic. The paper puts some emphasis on dangerous AI race scenarios, which are a major focus of the AI collective action literature. It also surveys the three major types of solutions to collective action issues: government regulation, private markets, and community self-organizing. AI governance will depend in part on AI collective action. This paper provides important guidance on how to succeed at it.

Sincerely,

Seth Baum, Executive Director

Future AI Governance

GCRI Executive Director Seth Baum gave a virtual talk titled “Setting the stage for future AI governance” to the Center for Human-Compatible Artificial Intelligence (CHAI) (on June 8) and to the Legal Priorities Project (on July 16).