I work on the safety and governance of frontier artificial intelligence.  My goal is to help guide the development of AI for the common good.  I believe the governance of AI is the most important issue of the century. I do this work at Google DeepMind, London.

I was the founding director and former president of the Centre for the Governance of AI (GovAI), which was founded at the University of Oxford and is now an independent nonprofit; founder and trustee of the Cooperative AI Foundation; and senior advisor and visiting fellow to the Oxford Martin AI Governance Initiative. 

Before 2016 (AlphaGo), I worked as a professor at Yale on great power peace. Specifically I studied the causes of the liberal peace, and the role of reputation and honor as motives for war. Along the way I developed statistical and methodological tools to enable more transparent, credible causal inference, teaching the cap-stone PhD statistical methods course in political science.  

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Allan Dafoe

Google DeepMind
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