AI Governance Research Ideas (2024)
A collated list of 78 open research questions in AI governance by Markus Anderljung and Moritz von Knebel at GovAI. Covers corporate governance, regulation, compute, military applications, biosecurity, and market structure.
Research Categories
Activism & Advocacy
- Public shareholder activism to shape AI trajectory
- Venture funding models as a governance lever
AI & the Military
- WMDs/resilience and risks from AI
- Likelihood and implications of AI nationalisation
AI Market Structure
- How concentrated will the AI market become?
- Business strategy behind releasing model weights (open vs. closed)
- Widespread use of open-access models
- Who will absorb the economic value produced by AI?
Corporate Governance
- Benchmarking investments into AI safety
- AI and whistleblowing protections
- Incident detection and monitoring at AI companies
- Publication norms in AI research
Economic Growth / Explosive Growth
- Comparing cost of computing to cost of human labour
- Forecasting AI impacts on workers, trade, developing countries
- Bottlenecks in chip manufacturing
- AI acceleration of foundation model and hardware development
Regulation & Policy
- Audit regimes for AI systems
- Liability frameworks for AI harms
- International coordination mechanisms
Technical & Compute Governance
- Compute thresholds as a regulatory trigger
- Hardware controls and export restrictions
- Evaluation standards for frontier models
Bio × AI
- Global pact on biosecurity controls at the digital-physical interface
- Policies to regulate biological design tools
Why It’s Relevant
AI governance intersects with climate finance, impact investing, and development — all areas where understanding regulatory trajectory matters for investment thesis. Markus Anderljung is a key figure worth following. See person-markus-anderljung.
Full document: https://www.markusanderljung.com/blog/a-collection-of-ai-governance-research-ideas-2024
See also: ai-technology-index | person-markus-anderljung