AI Talks

Select Recorded Talks

• "AI Strategy, Policy, and Governance." Beneficial AGI Conference, Puerto Rico, 2019 (Video, 22 min)

• "Governing AI Security Risks", at the European Parliament, Sub-Committee for Security and Defence, Public Hearing on Artificial Intelligence. October 2018. (Video, talk at 10:17:00, comments at 11:07:30) 

• Featured in documentary "Man in the Machine", by VPRO Backlight (Video, at 33:00).

• Talk at Effective Altruism Global, London, 2017. "AI Governance." (30 min) 

• For a slightly more introductory piece, see talk at Effective Altruism Global, Boston, 2017. "The AI Revolution and International Politics." (35 min) 

• 80,000 Podcast Interview on the governance of artificial intelligence

See also the interview notes.

Select Other Talks

• National Academies-Royal Society Symposium on AI, DC, 2019

• World AI Conference, Shanghai, 2019. 

• All Party Parliamentary Group on Artificial Intelligence Evidence Meeting (UK)

• Roundtable at Group of Governmental Experts on Lethal Autonomous Weapons, hosted by Geneva Centre for Security Policy and the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs;

• Futuremakers podcast, University of Oxford (link).

• Neural Information Processing Systems Conference, 'Strategic and societal implications of ML'

• CISAC, 'Governing the AI Revolution: the research landscape'

• Chair of Panel on AI and Global Security Risks - Yale University

• Keynote on AI Governance at Public Policy Forum with senior officials of Canadian Government.

• European Commission workshop on International AI Perspectives, EurAI;

• University of California, Los Angeles, International Relations Workshop;

• University of California, San Diego, International Relations Speaker Series;

• Engaging with the public with Artificial Intelligence: What can we do?'; AI @ Oxford Roundtable on AI and Ethics

• 'The Global Politics of the AI Revolution: A Research Agenda'; University of Oxford, IR Colloquium;

• University of Oxford, Rhodes AI Lab.

My bio (as of July 16 2024)

Allan Dafoe’s mission is to help humanity safely navigate the transition to advanced AI. Allan is Director of Frontier Safety and Governance at Google DeepMind, where he oversees work on dangerous capability evaluations, risk assessment, and mitigation protocols, as well as frontier AI strategy, policy, and governance. Allan is also Founder and Trustee of the Centre for the Governance of AI; Co-Founder and Trustee, Cooperative AI Foundation; former faculty at University of Oxford and Yale. www.allandafoe.com