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AI Governance: A Research Agenda

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A widely-cited 2018 foundational document from GovAI that helped establish AI governance as a structured research field; useful starting point for anyone seeking to understand the landscape of AI governance research questions.

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Allan Dafoe's foundational 2018 paper for the Centre for the Governance of AI (GovAI) provides a structured framework for AI governance research, identifying pivotal questions and organizing the problem landscape. It serves as an orientation document for researchers entering the field, enumerating key research priorities and referencing relevant literature.

Key Points

  • Proposes an overarching framework for organizing and prioritizing AI governance research problems
  • Identifies pivotal research questions spanning technical, political, and institutional dimensions of AI governance
  • Provides a literature map connecting governance questions to existing published work
  • Written in 2018, making it an early and influential attempt to systematize the AI governance field
  • Serves as a foundational orientation document for researchers new to AI governance

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 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 governance. It offers a framing of the overall problem, an enumeration of the questions that could be pivotal, and references to published articles relevant to these questions.

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 August 27, 2018

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