Windfall Clause
The Windfall Clause is a proposed mechanism by which AI firms could commit to donate a significant amount of any eventual extremely large profits. The idea was first proposed in Superintelligenceby Nick Bostrom,[1] and subsequently developed by the Centre for the Governance of AI.
O’Keefe, Cullen (2019) Cullen O’Keefe: The Windfall Clause — sharing the benefits of advanced AI, Effective Altruism Global, June 23.
O'Keefe, Cullen et al. (2020) The Windfall Clause: Distributing the Benefitsbenefits of AI for the Common Goodcommon good, report, Centre for the Governance of AI, Future of Humanity Institute, University of Oxford.
O’Keefe, Cullen et al. (2019) Cullen O’Keefe: The Windfall Clause — sharing the benefits of advanced AI, Effective Altruism Global, June 23.
Bostrom, Nick, Superintelligence (2014), p. 254.
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Bostrom, Nick (2014) Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies, Oxford: Oxford University Press, p. 254.
The Windfall Clause is a proposalproposed mechanism by the Centre for the Governance of AI to makewhich AI firms could commit to donate a significant amount of any eventual extremely large profits. The idea was first proposed in Superintelligence, and subsequently developedby the Centre for the Governance of AI.
O’O'Keefe, en (2019)Cullen et al. (2020) Cullen O’Keefe: The Windfall Clause — sharingClause: Distributing the benefitsBenefits of advanced AI for the Common Good, Effective Altruism Global, June 23.report, Centre for the Governance of AI, Future of Humanity Institute, University of Oxford.
O’Keefe, Cullen et al. (2019) Cullen O’Keefe: The Windfall Clause — sharing the benefits of advanced AI, Effective Altruism Global, June 23.
Bostrom, Nick, Superintelligence (2014), p. 254.
O’Keefe, Cullen et al. (2020) The windfall clause:Windfall Clause: Distributing the benefits of AI for the common good, Proceedings of the AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society, pp. 327–331.
The Windfall Clause is a proposal by the Centre for the Governance of AI to make AI firms commit to donate a significant amount of any eventual extremely large profits.
Further reading
O’Keefe, en (2019) Cullen O’Keefe: The Windfall Clause — sharing the benefits of advanced AI, Effective Altruism Global, June 23.
O’Keefe, Cullen et al. (2020) The windfall clause: Distributing the benefits of AI for the common good, Proceedings of the AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society, pp. 327–331.
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