Announcing Governing with AI
A Living Literature Review of AI's impact on governance
Welcome to Governing with AI!
I’m excited to announce the launch of Governing with AI: A Living Literature Review.
There is a growing conversation about how Artificial Intelligence (AI) is impacting how governments are held accountable, provide goods and services, coordinate to solve problems, and receive democratic input. At the same time, AI capabilities themselves are quickly improving, changing what is possible for both AI and governments to do. Additional advancements in capabilities will further impact not only how governments decide, act, and implement things, but also provide for new forms of governance. These fast-paced changes present immense opportunities and challenges for humanity. Keeping up with these changes, and their consequences, is a challenge all by itself.
Enter: Governing with AI. The Living Literature Review.
Once a month I will write a concise (and hopefully engaging!) literature review on some aspect of how AI is impacting governance. Here are a three topics, I’ve already begun researching (with thanks to Claude for the creative titles):
From Bureaucracy to Bytes and Back: AI's March Through Public Administration
AI vs. Global Crises: Computational Solutions for Planetary Problems
Digital Democracy 2.0: AI as the New Frontier of Civic Engagement
Each of these reviews will be ~3,000 words and integrate findings from peer-reviewed articles, pre-prints from ArXiv and SSRN, official government reports, and other high-quality sources. Each review will be posted to the Governing with AI website and will be emailed directly to subscribers in newsletter format. Additionally, several times a year I will update a review and post it as a new entry (while keeping the original review archived on the website).
I hope you’ll subscribe, follow along, share with others, and comment.
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You can expect the first literature review to be published mid-November!
P.S. Shout outs to Seb Krier for creating several engaging post banners, and to Richard Ngo for placing the idea of the “Governing with AI” title into my brain in an excellent Twitter/X thread on AI safety where Richard actually uses the phrase “governance with AI”.