View the paper “Corporate Governance of Artificial Intelligence in the Public Interest”

OCTOBER 28, 2021: This post has been corrected to fix an error.

Private industry is at the forefront of AI technology. About half of artificial general intelligence (AGI) R&D projects, including some of the largest ones, are based in corporations, which is far more than in any other institution type. Given the importance of AI technology, including for global catastrophic risk, it is essential to ensure that corporations develop and use AI in appropriate ways. …

View the paper “Collective Action on Artificial Intelligence: A Primer and Review”

The development of safe and socially beneficial artificial intelligence (AI) will require collective action: outcomes will depend on the actions that many different people take. In recent years, a sizable but disparate literature has looked at the challenges posed by collective action on AI, but this literature is generally not well grounded in the broader social science literature on collective action. This paper advances the study of collective action on AI by providing a …

View the paper “AI Certification: Advancing Ethical Practice by Reducing Information Asymmetries”

Certification is widely used to convey that an entity has met some sort of performance standard. It includes everything from the certificate that people receive for completing a university degree to certificates for energy efficiency in consumer appliances and quality management in organizations. As AI technology becomes increasingly impactful across society, there can be a role for certification to improve AI governance. This paper presents an overview of AI certification, applying insights from prior …