While many experts advocate for greater international cooperation on AI safety to address shared global risks, some view cooperation on AI with suspicion, arguing that it can pose unacceptable risks to national security. However, the extent to which cooperation on AI safety poses such risks, as well as provides benefits, depends on the specific area of cooperation.
Ben Bucknall
Saad Siddiqui
Lara Thurnherr
Conor McGurk
Ben Harack
Oxford Martin AI Governance Initiative
Anka Reuel
Patricia Paskov
Casey Mahoney
Casey Mahoney is an associate political scientist at RAND. He conducts policy research on international AI governance and the geopolitics of emerging technology. Mahoney holds a Ph.D. in political science.
Sören Mindermann
Fellow, Technology and International Affairs
Scott Singer is a fellow in the Technology and International Affairs Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, where he works on global AI development and governance with a focus on China.
Vinay Hiremath
Charbel-Raphaël Segerie
Oscar Delaney
Alessandro Abate
Fazl Barez
Michael K. Cohen
Philip Torr
Ferenc Huszár
Anisoara Calinescu
Gabriel Davis Jones
Yoshua Bengio
Robert F. Trager
Robert F. Trager is Co-Director of the Oxford Martin AI Governance Initiative, International Governance Lead at the Centre for the Governance of AI, and Senior Research Fellow at the Blavatnik School of Government at the University of Oxford. He is a recognized expert in the international governance of emerging technologies and regularly advises government and industry leaders on these topics.
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