THE LEARNING CURVE

I've just finished teaching a law subject on privacy, law and AI governance over summer (here in Australia it's summer right now). It was...

AI alignment may currently be out of reach, but basic human decency is not A Belgian man took his own life in March this year after...

Picture a machine learning system that relies on crowdsourced data labelers to help rank music recommendations. Is the system vulnerable...

I'm thinking about the concept of overlap in the governance of AI and automated decision-making (ADM). I've been reading Europe's new...

A basic problem in the regulation of technology, and especially of artificial intelligence is the problem of definition. There are many...

There is a fast-growing cottage industry of consultants and advisers who advise businesses on AI Ethics. Their value proposition is that...

Regulatory reform tends to proceed slowly and cautiously with many stages of consultation and refinement.

Today's post is going to be a little different. It's an experiment in 'lean' writing. I'm going to compile a taxonomy of threats to...

Good governance and good AI governance are not really separate things.

If we are going to have a bad AI, it's better that it isn't a criminal AI.

We don't have to specify in contracts every single rule for interpreting the contract, we just specify the governing law.

Implementing respect for the rule of law seems a useful way to close the door to a very large range of harmful action.

If we developed an AI surpassing our intelligence it would be in our interest to ensure that its goals were aligned with ours.

Many AI researchers take seriously the possibility that AGI will be developed within the next 50 years; and be extremely bad for humanity.

The subject of AI governance is something worth thinking about, something worth working on; a field where I might make myself useful.