Publications (10)
AI Certification: Advancing Ethical Practice by Reducing Information Asymmetries
Peter Cihon, Moritz J. Kleinaltenkamp, Jonas Schuett +1
As artificial intelligence (AI) systems are increasingly deployed, principles for ethical AI are also proliferating. Certification offers a method to both incentivize adoption of t…
On the Societal Impact of Open Foundation Models
Sayash Kapoor, Rishi Bommasani, Kevin Klyman +22
Foundation models are powerful technologies: how they are released publicly directly shapes their societal impact. In this position paper, we focus on open foundation models, defin…
The Impact of AI on Developer Productivity: Evidence from GitHub Copilot
Sida Peng, Eirini Kalliamvakou, Peter Cihon +1
Generative AI tools hold promise to increase human productivity. This paper presents results from a controlled experiment with GitHub Copilot, an AI pair programmer. Recruited soft…
Should Artificial Intelligence Governance be Centralised? Design Lessons from History
Peter Cihon, Matthijs M. Maas, Luke Kemp
Can effective international governance for artificial intelligence remain fragmented, or is there a need for a centralised international organisation for AI? We draw on the history…
Measuring Software Innovation with Open Source Software Development Data
Eva Maxfield Brown, Cailean Osborne, Peter Cihon +4
Existing innovation metrics inadequately capture software innovation, creating blind spots for researchers and policymakers seeking to understand and foster technological innovatio…
The Windfall Clause: Distributing the Benefits of AI for the Common Good
Cullen O'Keefe, Peter Cihon, Ben Garfinkel +3
As the transformative potential of AI has become increasingly salient as a matter of public and political interest, there has been growing discussion about the need to ensure that…
A Biased Review of Biases in Twitter Studies on Political Collective Action
Peter Cihon, Taha Yasseri
In recent years researchers have gravitated to social media platforms, especially Twitter, as fertile ground for empirical analysis of social phenomena. Social media provides resea…
Tweeting for the Cause: Network analysis of UK petition sharing
Peter Cihon, Taha Yasseri, Scott Hale +1
Online government petitions represent a new data-rich mode of political participation. This work examines the thus far understudied dynamics of sharing petitions on social media in…
Societal Capacity Assessment Framework: Measuring Resilience to Inform Advanced AI Risk Management
Milan Gandhi, Peter Cihon, Owen Larter +1
Risk assessments for advanced AI systems require evaluating both the models themselves and their deployment contexts. We introduce the Societal Capacity Assessment Framework (SCAF)…
Measuring AI agent autonomy: Towards a scalable approach with code inspection
Peter Cihon, Merlin Stein, Gagan Bansal +2
AI agents are AI systems that can achieve complex goals autonomously. Assessing the level of agent autonomy is crucial for understanding both their potential benefits and risks. Cu…