Academic papers

  • Whittlestone, J., Nyrup, R., Alexandrova, A., & Cave, S. (2019). The Role and Limits of Principles in AI Ethics: Towards a Focus on Tensions. In Proceedings of the AAAI/ACM Conference on AI Ethics and Society, Honolulu, HI, USA (pp. 27-28).

    • Highlights the limitations of ethical and societal principles in guiding AI development; identifies and discusses ways in which tensions emerge between principles when we attempt to implement principles in the real world.

  • Cave, S., & Ó hÉigeartaigh, S. S. (2019). Bridging near-and long-term concerns about AI. Nature Machine Intelligence, 1(1), 5.

    • Argues that divisions in the AI impacts field between ‘present day’ and ‘longer-term’ concerns risks missing out valuable insights; many AI ethics challenges will evolve quickly and a more foresight-oriented approach is needed.

  • Avin, S. (2019). Exploring artificial intelligence futures. Journal of AI Humanities.

    • Presents a range of tools for artificial intelligence futures work, calling for more work in data-driven, realistic, integrative, and participatory scenario role-plays.

  • Avin, S. & Amadae, S.M. (2019). Autonomy and machine learning at the interface of nuclear weapons, computers and people. In The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Strategic Stability and Nuclear Risk, SIPRI, (pp. 105-118).

    • Analyses emerging AI and cyber-related risks as nuclear weapons systems are updated and digitised.

Reports

  • Brundage, M., Avin, S., Clark, J., Toner, H., Eckersley, P., Garfinkel, B., ... & Anderson, H. (2018). The malicious use of artificial intelligence: Forecasting, prevention, and mitigation. arXiv preprint arXiv:1802.07228.

    • Collaboration between CSER/AI:FAR researchers (Shahar Avin, Sean O hEigeartaigh, Haydn Belfield, Simon Beard), OpenAI, FHI, and CNAS. Emerging threats posed by AI in physical, digital and political security. 

Policy submissions

Essays and Blog Posts

Other Resources

  • Global AI Governance: Overview of international law governing applications of AI and related technologies by former AI:FAR researcher Martina Kunz www.globalAIgov.org