Attention in the AI safety community has recently started to increasingly include strategic considerations of coordination amongst relevant actors within the field of AI and AI safety, in addition to the steadily growing work on technical considerations of building safe AI systems.

The Journal on Big Data And Cognitive Computing has dedicated a Special Issue to Artificial Superintelligence: Coordination & Strategy, edited by Dr. Roman Yampolskiy, University of Louisville, and Allison Duettmann, Foresight Institute.

Submissions for manuscripts are open now, the deadline for submissions is January 31, 2019.

Topics may include, but are not limited to:

• AI race scenarios, strategies and barriers for coordination
• Analysis of relevant actors, AI strategies and relation amongst actors
• Considerations of global AI governance
• Game theory of AI coordination
• Potential positive outcomes of AI coordination
• Historical precedents for coordination strategies
• Key factor analysis for realistic coordination scenarios
• Effects of AI coordination efforts on other risks
• Effects of external developments on AI coordination
• Openness vs. closedness in AI research and AI safety research
• Centralized vs. decentralized governance systems
• Multilateral vs. unilateral AI development and deployment scenarios
• Cybersecurity as risk factor in AI safety
• Near-term pathways to influence AI policy
• Engagement of future relevant stakeholders in AI safety
• Framing biases in AI coordination
• Forecasting AI progress, obstacles, and dependencies
• Regulating AI-based systems: safety standards and certification
• Risk-reduction of weaponization of AI
• Risk-reduction of AI-based memetic manipulation
• Safety guidelines for the AI community
• Strategies for targeted outreach to relevant actors
• Societal effects of AI: Algorithmic bias and AI discrimination
• Dangers and promises of smart contracts for AI safety
• Predictions & incentive markets for AI coordination
• Whole Brain Emulations (WBE’s) & coordination

Please see the BDCC Special Issue: Call for Papers for further information and submission instructions or contact [email protected] with questions.

We look forward to your submissions,

Allison Duettmann, Foresight Institute.