Gillian K. Hadfield

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Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of AI Alignment and Governance at the School of Government and Policy and the Whiting School of Engineering at Johns Hopkins University

Gillian K. Hadfield is the Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of AI Alignment and Governance at the School of Government and Policy and the Department of Computer Science at Johns Hopkins University. She is a faculty member of the Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence and a Schmidt Sciences AI2050 Senior Fellow. Hadfield’s research focuses on innovative design for legal, regulatory, and technical systems for AI, computational models of human normative systems, and building AI systems that understand and respond to human values and norms.

Hadfield believes normativity — the practice of classifying behaviors as acceptable or unacceptable and coordinating third-party enforcement to channel behavior accordingly — is at the root of everything that distinguishes humans from our primate ancestors. Her current work addresses AI governance and alignment through computational models of normativity and legal order, with the goal of building AI systems that can integrate into human normative systems and support human flourishing.

Research Interests

  • Human Normative Systems 
  • AI Alignment
  • Multi-Agent Systems 
  • Cooperative AI
  • AI Governance
  • Legal and Regulatory Design

Highlights

  • Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of AI Alignment and Governance, Johns Hopkins University
  • Schmidt Sciences AI2050 Senior Fellow
  • Chair, Board of Trustees of the Cooperative AI Foundation
  • Recipient of the Mundell Medal for Excellence in Legal Writing
  • Former Schwartz Reisman Chair in Technology and Society
  • Former Senior Policy Advisor at OpenAI
  • Former President of the Society for Institutional and Organizational Economics
  • Former President of the Canadian Law and Economics Association

Publications

Managing extreme AI risks amid rapid progress

Yoshua Bengio and Geoffrey Hinton and Andrew Yao and Dawn Song and Pieter Abbeel and Trevor Darrell 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 Gunes 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 Soren Mindermann

2024

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