We are looking to hire one or more Research Fellows. We are interested in candidates from a range of disciplines, who have a demonstrated ability to produce excellent research and care deeply about...
2021 was a year of big changes for GovAI. Most significantly, we spun out from the University of Oxford and adopted a new non-profit structure. At the same time, after five years within the...
Problems of cooperation—in which agents have opportunities to improve their joint welfare but are not easily able to do so—are ubiquitous and important. They can be found at all scales ranging from...
2022
We are looking for a Chief of Staff to help build and manage our growing organisation. The Chief of Staff would serve as the “central node” within GovAI, reporting only to the Director. A range of...
2021
The Centre for the Governance of AI (GovAI) has relaunched as a nonprofit organisation. Our mission remains the same: We are building a global research community, dedicated to helping humanity...
AI poses a risk of automating and degrading jobs around the world, creating harmful effects to vulnerable workers’ livelihoods and well-being. How can we deliberately account for the impacts on wor...
Over the next decades, AI will dramatically change the economic landscape. It may also magnify inequality, both within and across countries. Joseph E. Stiglitz, Nobel Laureate in Economics, joined ...
Following the 2014 Sunflower Movement protests, Audrey Tang—a prominent member of the civic social movement g0v—was headhunted by Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen’s administration to become the...
In the spring of 2018, MIT President L. Rafael Reif commissioned the MIT Task Force on the Work of the Future. He tasked them with understanding the relationships between emerging technologies and ...
2020 saw many continued developments in AI governance. It is heartening to see how rapidly this field continues to grow, and exciting to be part of that growth. This report provides a summary of ou...
2020
Over the long run, technology has improved the human condition. Nevertheless, the economic progress from technological innovation has not arrived equitably or smoothly. While innovation often produ...
While artificial intelligence provides the backbone for many tools people use around the world, recent work has brought attention to the potential biases that may be baked into these algorithms. Wh...
How will economic growth evolve in the long run? This session explored the wide range of plausible scenarios. Aghion, Jones & Jones 2017 analyze how artificial intelligence may super-charge the gro...
In September 2019, Facebook announced that it was establishing an independent Facebook Oversight Board, with the power to make binding decisions on content moderation. Noah Feldman, one of the Boar...
Ben Garfinkel, Research Fellow at Oxford’s Future of Humanity Institute, supports the continued expansion of AI safety as a field and believes working on AI is among the very best ways to have a po...
The twentieth century witnessed the triumph of democratic capitalism in the industrialized West, with widespread popular support for both free markets and representative elections. Today, that poli...
This event focussed on questions such as: Will COVID-19 cause automation to increase? A decline in labour share of income? A rise of superstar companies? What does COVID-19 teach us about policy re...
2019 saw many continued developments in AI governance. It is heartening to see how rapidly this field continues to grow, and exciting to be part of that growth. This report provides a summary of ou...
2019
Autonomy on the battlefield represents one possible usage of narrow AI by militaries around the world. Research and development on autonomous weapon systems (AWS) by major powers, middle powers, an...
Computer security is no longer about data; it’s about life and property. This change makes an enormous difference, and will inevitably disrupt technology industries. Firstly, data authentication an...
2018 saw many continued developments in AI governance. It is heartening to see how rapidly this field continues to grow, and exciting to be part of that growth. This report provides a summary of ou...
2018
