title: International Institutions for Advanced AI
summary: International institutions may have an important role to play in ensuring
  advanced AI systems benefit humanity. International collaborations can unlock
  AI's ability to further sustainable development, and coordination of regulatory
  efforts can reduce obstacles to innovation and the spread of benefits.
  Conversely, the potential dangerous capabilities of powerful and
  general-purpose AI systems create global externalities in their development and
  deployment, and international efforts to further responsible AI practices could
  help manage the risks they pose. This paper identifies a set of governance
  functions that could be performed at an international level to address these
  challenges, ranging from supporting access to frontier AI systems to setting
  international safety standards. It groups these functions into four
  institutional models that exhibit internal synergies and have precedents in
  existing organizations: 1) a Commission on Frontier AI that facilitates expert
  consensus on opportunities and risks from advanced AI, 2) an Advanced AI
  Governance Organization that sets international standards to manage global
  threats from advanced models, supports their implementation, and possibly
  monitors compliance with a future governance regime, 3) a Frontier AI
  Collaborative that promotes access to cutting-edge AI, and 4) an AI Safety
  Project that brings together leading researchers and engineers to further AI
  safety research. We explore the utility of these models and identify open
  questions about their viability.
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paper_authors.name: Lewis Ho
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paper_authors.name: Joslyn Barnhart
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paper_authors.name: Robert Trager
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paper_authors.name: Yoshua Bengio
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paper_authors.name: Miles Brundage
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paper_authors.name: Allison Carnegie
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paper_authors.fullname: Allison Carnegie
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paper_authors.name: Rumman Chowdhury
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paper_authors.name: Allan Dafoe
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paper_authors.name: Gillian Hadfield
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paper_authors.name: Margaret Levi
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paper_authors.name: Duncan Snidal
paper_title: International Institutions for Advanced AI
paper_summary: International institutions may have an important role to play in ensuring
  advanced AI systems benefit humanity. International collaborations can unlock
  AI's ability to further sustainable development, and coordination of regulatory
  efforts can reduce obstacles to innovation and the spread of benefits.
  Conversely, the potential dangerous capabilities of powerful and
  general-purpose AI systems create global externalities in their development and
  deployment, and international efforts to further responsible AI practices could
  help manage the risks they pose. This paper identifies a set of governance
  functions that could be performed at an international level to address these
  challenges, ranging from supporting access to frontier AI systems to setting
  international safety standards. It groups these functions into four
  institutional models that exhibit internal synergies and have precedents in
  existing organizations: 1) a Commission on Frontier AI that facilitates expert
  consensus on opportunities and risks from advanced AI, 2) an Advanced AI
  Governance Organization that sets international standards to manage global
  threats from advanced models, supports their implementation, and possibly
  monitors compliance with a future governance regime, 3) a Frontier AI
  Collaborative that promotes access to cutting-edge AI, and 4) an AI Safety
  Project that brings together leading researchers and engineers to further AI
  safety research. We explore the utility of these models and identify open
  questions about their viability.
paper_ai_keywords: Commission on Frontier AI Advanced AI Governance Organization Frontier AI Collaborative AI Safety Project