The Role of Cooperation in Responsible AI Development
This addresses collective action problems in AI safety for industry stakeholders, but it is incremental as it builds on existing cooperation theories without new empirical data.
The paper tackles the problem of competitive pressures leading AI companies to underinvest in safety and social impact, proposing strategies to foster industry cooperation for responsible AI development.
In this paper, we argue that competitive pressures could incentivize AI companies to underinvest in ensuring their systems are safe, secure, and have a positive social impact. Ensuring that AI systems are developed responsibly may therefore require preventing and solving collective action problems between companies. We note that there are several key factors that improve the prospects for cooperation in collective action problems. We use this to identify strategies to improve the prospects for industry cooperation on the responsible development of AI.