Exploring Global Governance of Artificial Intelligence

<p>Over the past few months, there have been a range of voices calling for the urgent regulation of artificial intelligence. Comparisons to the problems of nuclear proliferation abound, so perhaps it’s no surprise that some want a new international body similar to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). But when it comes to AI and global governance, there’s already a lot in play- from ethics councils to various schemes for industry governance, activity on standards, various international agreements, and legislation that will have international impact, such as the EU’s AI Act.&nbsp;</p><p>To help get his head around the complicated, evolving ecology of global AI governance, Justin Hendrix spoke to two of the three authors of a <a href="https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/ubxgk" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">recent paper</a> in the <em>Annual Review of Law and Social Science</em> that attempts to take stock of and explore the tensions between different approaches, including <strong>Michael Veale</strong>, an associate professor in the Faculty of Laws at University College London, where he works on the intersection of computer science, law, and policy; and <strong>Robert Gorwa</strong>, a postdoctoral researcher at the Berlin Social Science Center, a large publicly-funded research institute in Germany.</p>