Shin-Shin Hua and Haydn Belfield

Identifying and resolving tensions between competition law and long-term AI strategy.

Shin-Shin Hua and Haydn Belfield proposed a research project on the implications of competition law for long-term AI governance. One important set of questions in AI governance revolves around the number and type of actors (e.g. companies, governments, international organizations) involved in developing advanced AI systems. Competition law likely affects the types of intervention that are possible on this axis, e.g. whether multiple research groups could combine into a consortium-like structure. This broad topic has been discussed in the long-term AI governance space for a while, but so far very little serious work has been done on it.

Shin-Shin has 7 years of experience as a competition lawyer, and also has experience in academic legal research involving AI. Haydn is an Academic Project Manager at the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk.

I think good quality work on this topic would be valuable for the field of long-term AI governance, and I believe this is a promising team to undertake such work.