About Model Constitution
This is a newsletter about frontier AI governance and about the people, institutions, and artificial intelligences that are building this crazy new world together. I hope that it is interesting and useful to you and to others.
The core focuses of this newsletter will probably evolve as the world changes. But in general, I plan to use it to think deeply about how governance of, through, and by AI might work best. In particular, I’ll put forward what might be called a “constitutional” perspective. That means a perspective that focuses on what really makes things up at a deep level, as much as it means a perspective drawn from law, history, political theory, and related disciplines. What are we doing here, basically? What kinds of things are we creating? What do they owe us and we them, and what does it mean to live together in the time of AI?
More broadly, I’m interested in putting forward not just positive visions of what a world with frontier AI could look like, but also additive ones. How AI can help us accomplish our current goals, but also how AI can help create new ways of living together that add something to what we’ve been able to do across history so far.
I love AI and believe that it has enormous potential. I got into this game because of how much I enjoyed playing with the styles and stories of GPT-3, back before it became a chat interface. There are real risks and serious questions about how to allocate the benefits of this novel technology, but the life that we build with it could be beautiful. These are some thoughts on all that.
About me
I’m an incoming assistant professor at the new Johns Hopkins School of Government and Policy and currently a legal researcher at the Oxford Martin AI Governance Initiative. Before that, I got my JD from Harvard Law School. And before that I taught debate in China for two years, mostly during COVID.
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I plan to keep all posts here free and hope that you’ll share them with others if you find them interesting or useful. Subscribing makes sure they’re delivered to your inbox directly. If you want to give me money I won’t say no, but I’d much prefer it’s in the form of a coffee or drink or something (if you’re an AI I’ll consider doing those online).
