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  1. Allan Dafoe

    1. Allan Dafoe is associate professor and director at the Centre for the Governance of AI, Future of Humanity Institute, University of Oxford, UK.

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    1. Gillian Hadfield is director at the Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society, University of Toronto, Canada; and senior policy adviser at OpenAI, San Francisco, California, USA; and a faculty affiliate at the Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence and at the Center for Human-Compatible AI at the University of California, Berkeley.

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Artificial-intelligence assistants and recommendation algorithms interact with billions of people every day, influencing lives in myriad ways, yet they still have little understanding of humans. Self-driving vehicles controlled by artificial intelligence (AI) are gaining mastery of their interactions with the natural world, but they are still novices when it comes to coordinating with other cars and pedestrians or collaborating with their human operators.

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Nature 593, 33-36 (2021)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-01170-0

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