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Ben Garfinkel

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Ben Garfinkel is Acting Director of the Centre for the Governance of AI (GovAI) and a Research Fellow at the Future of Humanity Institute, University of Oxford. He is responsible for setting the direction of the organisation and overseeing its research.

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Security

How Does the Offense-Defense Balance Scale?

August 2019
Journal of Strategic Studies
Ben Garfinkel and Allan Dafoe

We ask how the offense-defense balance scales, meaning how it changes as investments into a conflict increase. To do so we offer a general formalization of the offense-defense balance in terms of c...

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A Tour of Emerging Cryptographic Technologies

May 2021
GovAI Report
Ben Garfinkel

Historically, progress in the field of cryptography has been enormously consequential. Over the past century, for instance, cryptographic discoveries have played a key role in a world war and made it possible to use the internet..

Security

The Malicious Use of Artificial Intelligence: Forecasting, Prevention, and Mitigation

February 2018
Joint Report
Miles Brundage, Shahar Avin, Jack Clark, Helen Toner, Peter Eckersley, Ben Garfinkel, Allan Dafoe, Paul Scharre, Thomas Zeitzoff, Bobby Filar, Hyrum Anderson, Heather Roff, Gregory C. Allen...

This report was written by researchers at the Future of Humanity Institute, the Center for the Study of Existential Risk, OpenAI, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Center for a New American S...

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