Elliot Mckernon

This is an 8-page comprehensive summary of the results from Threshold 2030: a recent expert conference on economic impacts hosted by Convergence Analysis, Metaculus, and the Future of Life Institute. Please see the linkpost for the full end-to-end report, which is 80 pages of analysis and 100+ pages of raw...

This post consists of the Executive Summary and Conclusion of our proposal for model registries as a foundational tool for AI governance, authored by Elliot McKernon, Gwyn Glasser, Deric Cheng, and Gillian Hadfield. The full report is available through the link above. Executive Summary of Our Proposal In this report,...

tl;dr: The new UK government will likely continue to balance encouraging AI innovation for public good against increasing regulation for public safety, with so-far rhetorical calls for stricter regulation than the previous government’s. Several reports have been published by the government and the UK AI Safety Institute, including the latter’s...

As part of our Governance Recommendations Research Program, Convergence Analysis has compiled a first-of-its-kind report summarizing the state of the AI regulatory landscape as of May 2024. We provide an overview of existing regulations, focusing on the US, EU, and China as the leading governmental bodies currently developing AI legislation....

This article is last in a series of 10 posts comprising a 2024 State of the AI Regulatory Landscape Review, conducted by the Governance Recommendations Research Program at Convergence Analysis. Each post will cover a specific domain of AI governance, such as incident reporting, safety evals, model registries, and more....

This report is one in a series of ~10 posts comprising a 2024 State of the AI Regulatory Landscape Review, conducted by the Governance Recommendations Research Program at Convergence Analysis. Each post will cover a specific domain of AI governance (such as incident reporting, safety evals, model registries, and more)....

Happy May the 4th from Convergence Analysis! Cross-posted on the EA Forum. As part of Convergence Analysis’s scenario research, we’ve been looking into how AI organisations, experts, and forecasters make predictions about the future of AI. In February 2023, the AI research institute Epoch published a report in which its...