Gillian K. Hadfield

Faculty Member

Professor of Law, Professor of Strategic Management, Faculty of Law, University of Toronto

Canada CIFAR Artificial Intelligence Chair

Gillian K. Hadfield is the Schwartz Reisman Chair in Technology and Society, professor of law and strategic management at the University of Toronto, and a Canada CIFAR AI Chair at the Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence. Her current research is focused on innovative design for legal and regulatory systems for AI and other complex global technologies; computational models of human normative systems; and working with machine learning researchers to build ML systems that understand and respond to human norms. Hadfield was the inaugural director of the Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society from 2019 to 2023.

Research Interests

  • Human Normative Systems 
  • AI Alignment
  • Multi-Agent Systems 
  • Cooperative AI
  • AI Governance
  • Legal and Regulatory Design
  • Contracts
  • Institutional and Organizational Economics

Highlights

  • Founding Trustee of the Cooperative AI Foundation
  • Serves as a Senior Policy Advisor at OpenAI
  • Holds the Schwartz Reisman Chair in Technology and Society
  • Recipient of the Mundell Medal for Excellence in Legal Writing
  • Fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford
  • Former President of the Society for Institutional and Organizational Economics
  • Former President of the Canadian Law and Economics Association

Publications

Managing ai risks in an era of rapid progress

Yoshua Bengio and Geoffrey Hinton and Andrew Yao and Dawn Song and Pieter Abbeel and Yuval Noah Harari and Ya-Qin Zhang and Lan Xue and Shai Shalev-Shwartz and Gillian Hadfield and Jeff Clune and Tegan Maharaj and Frank Hutter and Atılım Güneş Baydin and Sheila McIlraith and Qiqi Gao and Ashwin Acharya and David Krueger and Anca Dragan and Philip Torr and Stuart Russell and Daniel Kahneman and Jan Brauner and Sören Mindermann

2023

Judging facts, judging norms: Training machine learning models to judge humans requires a modified approach to labeling data

Aparna Balagopalan and David Madras and David H Yang and Dylan Hadfield-Menell and Gillian K Hadfield and Marzyeh Ghassemi

2023

Frontier AI regulation: Managing emerging risks to public safety

Markus Anderljung and Joslyn Barnhart and Jade Leung and Anton Korinek and Cullen O'Keefe and Jess Whittlestone and Shahar Avin and Miles Brundage and Justin Bullock and Duncan Cass-Beggs and Ben Chang and Tantum Collins and Tim Fist and Gillian Hadfield and Alan Hayes and Lewis Ho and Sara Hooker and Eric Horvitz and Noam Kolt and Jonas Schuett and Yonadav Shavit and Divya Siddarth and Robert Trager and Kevin Wolf

2023

International institutions for advanced AI

Lewis Ho and Joslyn Barnhart and Robert Trager and Yoshua Bengio and Miles Brundage and Allison Carnegie and Rumman Chowdhury and Allan Dafoe and Gillian Hadfield and Margaret Levi and Duncan Snidal

2023

Regulatory markets: The future of ai governance

Gillian K Hadfield and Jack Clark

2023

Regulatory Transformation in the Age of AI

Jamie Amarat Sandhu, NOAM KOLT, GILLIAN K HADFIELD

2023

Computing Power and the Governance of Artificial Intelligence

Girish Sastry and Lennart Heim and Haydn Belfield and Markus Anderljung and Miles Brundage and Julian Hazell and Cullen O'Keefe and Gillian K Hadfield and Richard Ngo and Konstantin Pilz and George Gor and Emma Bluemke and Sarah Shoker and Janet Egan and Robert F Trager and Shahar Avin and Adrian Weller and Yoshua Bengio and Diane Coyle

2023