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Allan Dafoe

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Allan Dafoe advises GovAI and collaborates on research projects. Allan is also the founder and previous Director of GovAI. He is a Senior Staff Research Scientist and lead of the Long-term Strategy and Governance team at DeepMind and Trustee of the Cooperative AI Foundation. He was previously on faculty at the University of Oxford and Yale University, with a background in political science.

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Macrostrategy

Cooperative AI: Machines Must Learn to Find Common Ground

May 2021
Nature Comment
Allan Dafoe, Yoram Bachrach, Gillian Hadfield, Eric Horvitz, Kate Larson & Thore Graepel

To help humanity solve fundamental problems of cooperation, scientists need to reconceive artificial intelligence as deeply social. Artificial-intelligence assistants and recommendation algorithms interact with billions of peop...

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AI Governance: A Research Agenda

August 2018
GovAI Research Agenda
Allan Dafoe

This research agenda by Allan Dafoe proposes a framework for research on AI governance. It provides a foundation to introduce and orient researchers to the space of important problems in AI governa...

Macrostrategy

AI Governance: Opportunity and Theory of Impact

September 2020
GovAI Theory of Impact
Allan Dafoe

Advances in AI are likely to be among the most impactful global developments in the coming decades, and that AI governance will become among the most important global issue areas. AI governance is ...

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