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How scientists can inform policy decisions

You might know what policymakers should know. That doesn’t mean you know how to help them to use that information.
  1. Dewey Murdick

    1. Dewey Murdick is the director of the Center for Security and Emerging Technology at Georgetown University in Washington DC.

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Imagine you are an artificial intelligence (AI) researcher (or a microbiologist). You see looming danger from a future autonomous system (or health-care protocol), threatening the people whom it’s meant to serve. To avert disaster, you want to warn policymakers. Almost inevitably, they won’t heed your warning unless you first step back.

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Nature 611, 205 (2022)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-022-03598-4

Competing Interests

CSET’s research is funded by philanthropic organizations that fund our policy analysis. Specific organizations include: Open Philanthropy, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the Musk Foundation, the Patrick J. McGovern Foundation and the Public Interest Technology University Network. D.M. is an unpaid adviser for several non-governmental organizations, including the Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, the International Centre of Expertise in Montreal on Artificial Intelligence, and the Center for a New American Security Task Force on AI and National Security.

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