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AI Governance Seminars

We host educational seminars and workshops to better connect the field of AI governance. You can watch recordings and read transcripts of some of our events below. Please reach out if you would like to give a seminar related to our work.

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Book Talk: Technology and the Rise of Great Powers with Jeffrey Ding

December 11, 2024

When scholars and policymakers consider how technological advances affect the rise and fall of great powers, they draw on theories that center the moment of innovation - the eureka moment that...

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Paul Scharre & Markus Anderljung: Power in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

January 29, 2024

In January 2024, Paul Scharre (CNAS) joined GovAI's Head of Policy Markus Anderljung for a live webinar discussion on 'Power in the Age of Artificial Intelligence'. You can watch the recording here...

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Daron Acemoglu on Power and Progress: Our 1000-Year Struggle Over Technology & Prosperity

October 27, 2023

In October 2023, Daron Acemoglu joined GovAI's Economics of AI Lead Anton Korinek for a discussion on Daron's book Power and Progress: Our 1000-Year Struggle Over Technology & Prosperity.

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Webinar: How Should Frontier AI Models be Regulated?

October 29, 2023

In July 2023, GovAI hosted a webinar focused on a whitepaper: “Frontier AI Regulation: Managing Emerging Risks to Public Safety.”

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Lauren Kahn on Responsible Military Use of Artificial Intelligence and Autonomy

April 28, 2023

In April 2023, GovAI was joined for an online discussion by Lauren Kahn from the Council on Foreign Relations. GovAI's International Governance Lead Robert Trager hosted the discussion.

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Tom Davidson on What a Compute-centric Framework Says About Takeoff Speeds

April 20, 2023

In March 2023, we hosted a presentation by Tom Davidson (Open Philanthropy) about his draft paper "What a Compute-Centric Framework Says About Takeoff Speeds". GovAI's Acting Director Ben Garfinkel..

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Anton Korinek & Megan Juelfs on Preparing for the (Non-Existent?) Future of Work

October 19, 2022

In October 2022, we hosted a discussion with Anton Korinek and Megan Juelfs about Preparing for the (Non-Existent?) Future of Work.

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Paul Scharre & Helen Toner on AI Capabilities and the Nature of Warfare

February 9, 2022

In April 2022, we hosted a discussion with Paul Scharre and Helen Toner about AI Capabilities and the Nature of Warfare...

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Sam Altman and Bill Gale on Taxation Solutions for Advanced AI

February 9, 2022

In this seminar, Sam Altman and William G. Gale discussed Sam's blog post 'Moore's Law for Everything' and taxation solutions for advanced AI.

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Stephanie Bell and Katya Klinova on Redesigning AI for Shared Prosperity

July 13, 2021

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...

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Joseph Stiglitz & Anton Korinek on AI and Inequality

May 12, 2021

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 ...

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Audrey Tang and Hélène Landemore on Taiwan’s Digital Democracy, Collaborative Civic Technologies, and Beneficial Information Flows

March 9, 2021

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...

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David Autor, Katya Klinova & Ioana Marinescu on the Work of the Future: Building Better Jobs in an Age of Intelligent Machines

January 19, 2021

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 ...

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Margaret Roberts & Jeffrey Ding on Censorship’s Implications for Artificial Intelligence

November 30, 2020

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...

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Ben Jones & Chad Jones on Economic Growth in the Long Run: Artificial Intelligence Explosion or an Empty Planet?

October 14, 2020

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...

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Noah Feldman, Sophie-Charlotte Fischer, and Gillian Hadfield on the Design of Facebook’s Oversight Board

September 16, 2020

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...

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Carles Boix and Sir Tim Besley on Democratic Capitalism at the Crossroads

June 17, 2020

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...

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Daron Acemoğlu, Diane Coyle, and Joseph Stiglitz on COVID-19 and the Economics of AI

May 13, 2020

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...

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Michael C. Horowitz on When Speed Kills: Autonomous Weapon Systems, Deterrence, and Stability

July 16, 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...

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Bruce Schneier and Gillian Hadfield on Securing a World of Physically Capable Computers

June 17, 2019

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...

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