Program
Technology and International Affairs
Artificial Intelligence

As artificial intelligence (AI) changes how people around the world live and work, new frontiers for international collaboration, competition, and conflict are opening. AI can, for example, improve (or detract) from international cyber stability, optimize (or bias) cloud-based services, or guide the targeting of biotechnology toward great discoveries (or terrible abuses). Carnegie partners with governments, industry, academia, and civil society to anticipate and mitigate the international security challenges from AI. By confronting both the short-term (2-5 years) and medium-term (5-10 years) challenges, we hope to mitigate the most urgent risks of AI while laying the groundwork for addressing its slower and subtler effects.

Award

Award for Scholarship on AI and Liability

Carnegie is awarding $20,000 for innovative legal scholarship on the issue of large language models and legal liability. We are accepting submissions that have been published, or are candidates to be published, in a peer-reviewed law journal. Submissions will be accepted until July 1, 2024, and will be reviewed by an expert panel chaired by Carnegie President Mariano-Florentino (Tino) Cuéllar.

Award

Award for Scholarship on AI and Liability

Carnegie is awarding $20,000 for innovative legal scholarship on the issue of large language models and legal liability. We are accepting submissions that have been published, or are candidates to be published, in a peer-reviewed law journal. Submissions will be accepted until July 1, 2024, and will be reviewed by an expert panel chaired by Carnegie President Mariano-Florentino (Tino) Cuéllar.

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AI Governance for the Global Majority: Understanding Opportunities and Challenges
May 9, 2024

Carnegie’s AI in the Global Majority project brings together scholars, practitioners, and entrepreneurs to elucidate gaps and opportunities in the current global AI governance narrative through a series of publications. Join project authors for a virtual discussion moderated by Carnegie scholars.

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  • Aubra Anthony
  • Elina Noor
  • Jake Okechukwu Effoduh
  • Rachel Gong
  • Jun-E Tan
  • Ranjit Singh
  • Chijioke Okorie
  • Vukosi Marivate
  • Carolina Botero
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Advancing a More Global Agenda for Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence

International AI governance enshrines assumptions from the more well-resourced Global North. These efforts must adapt to better account for the range of harms AI incurs globally.

In The Media
in the media
In Embracing AI, Southeast Asia Must Consider Sobering Climate Costs

The UN resolution’s call for a life-cycle approach to AI is an important step towards an honest accounting of these systems’ environmental impact.

· April 2, 2024
South China Morning Post
In The Media
in the media
AI Usage in Elections: Exploring the #AIforGood Formula

Awareness, guidelines for ethical use, and accountability by Big Tech can help leverage AI for the public good, says Suri, whose book The Great Tech Game and eponymous podcast highlight how technology is shaping the destiny of nations.

· March 29, 2024
The Hindu
commentary
How Cities Use the Power of Public Procurement for Responsible AI

California’s local governments are transforming a traditionally mundane function into a strategic lever.

  • Ben Polsky
  • Leila Doty
· March 25, 2024
paper
Envisioning a Global Regime Complex to Govern Artificial Intelligence

Rather than a single, tidy, institutional solution to govern AI, the world will likely see the emergence of something less elegant: a regime complex, comprising multiple institutions within and across several functional areas.

· March 21, 2024
paper
Charting the Geopolitics and European Governance of Artificial Intelligence

Amid a global race for AI supremacy, the EU seeks to set a gold standard for AI regulation and maintain a technological edge. Doing so will require navigating a crowded landscape characterized by state and corporate competition and a fragmented regulatory regime complex.

· March 6, 2024
article
AI and Product Safety Standards Under the EU AI Act

For the EU’s Artificial Intelligence Act to set a global benchmark for AI regulation, the resulting standards need to balance detail and legal clarity with flexibility to adapt to the emerging technologies.

· March 5, 2024
commentary
Why We Need a Global AI Compact

This essay provides three reasons why the world needs a global AI compact, what it will hopefully achieve, and the role of different stakeholders in this process.

· March 1, 2024
paper
Tracing the Roots of China’s AI Regulations

How face swap apps, investigative journalism, and corporate thought leadership shaped governance.

· February 27, 2024
In The Media
in the media
AI in War: Can Advanced Military Technologies Be Tamed Before It’s Too Late?

Liberal democracies can play a much greater role in setting norms and baseline conditions for the deployment of these powerful new technologies of war.

· January 11, 2024
The Bulletin
article
Subnational Practices in AI Policy: A Working Guide

Subnational jurisdictions are grappling with the tangible impacts that AI is beginning to have. Their efforts provide an important space to learn best practices for policy going forward.

· December 12, 2023