The Centre for the Governance of AI (GovAI) is an AI governance research center.

History

GovAI was founded in 2018, as part of the Future of Humanity Institute. In June 2021, it became an independent organization.^[1]

Funding

As of July 2022, GovAI has received nearly $3 million in funding from Open Philanthropy^[2], over $600,000 from the Survival and Flourishing Fund, ^[3][4] and over $170,000 from Effective Altruism Funds.^[5]

Further reading

Dafoe, Allan (2018) AI governance: a research agenda, Centre for the Governance of AI, Future of Humanity Institute, University of Oxford.

Monrad, Joshua & Mojmír Stehlík (2019) An Interview with Ben Garfinkel, Governance of AI Program Researcher, The Politic, June 20.

Perry, Lucas (2019) AI Alignment Podcast: On the governance of AI with Jade Leung, Future of Life Institute, July 22.

Wiblin, Robert & Keiran Harris (2018) Prof Allan Dafoe on trying to prepare the world for the possibility that ai will destabilise global politics, 80,000 Hours, May 18.

External links

Centre for the Governance of AI. Official website.

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   Centre for the Governance of AI (2021) Centre for the Governance of AI, Centre for the Governance of AI, June.

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   Open Philanthropy (2022) Grants database: Centre for the Governance of AI, Open Philanthropy.

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   Survival and Flourishing Fund (2020a) SFF-2021-H1 S-process recommendations announcement, Survival and Flourishing Fund.

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   Survival and Flourishing Fund (2020b) SFF-2021-H2 S-process recommendations announcement, Survival and Flourishing Fund.

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   Long-Term Future Fund (2021) July 2021: Long-Term Future Fund grants, Effective Altruism Funds, July.