Yolanda Lannquist

Submitted to U.S. NIST Generative AI Public Working Group. This initial public draft lists clauses that may serve as commitments by frontier AI labs to adopt safe, secure, and ethical practices and procedures. Multiple workshops and consultations were conducted in 2022-2023 with industry technical staff, independent experts, and engineers from frontier labs to draft recommendations for model design, development, and testing. This list of potential clauses is intended to inspire further research… Show more

Submitted to U.S. NIST Generative AI Public Working Group. This initial public draft lists clauses that may serve as commitments by frontier AI labs to adopt safe, secure, and ethical practices and procedures. Multiple workshops and consultations were conducted in 2022-2023 with industry technical staff, independent experts, and engineers from frontier labs to draft recommendations for model design, development, and testing. This list of potential clauses is intended to inspire further research into best practices and to foster the development of advanced AI in a safe and trustworthy manner. Show less

Co-authored chapter with Beaudry Kock (Apple) titled 'Fulfilling the Promise of Autonomous Vehicles with a New Ethics of Transportation.'
Book Edited by Ryan Jenkins, David Cerny, and Tomas Hribek
-Represents a first book-length, interdisciplinary collection on the ethical and social implications of autonomous vehicles.
-Collects the work of leading experts in the field of the ethics of autonomous vehicle.
-Examines a famous philosophical thought experiment in the context of… Show more

Co-authored chapter with Beaudry Kock (Apple) titled 'Fulfilling the Promise of Autonomous Vehicles with a New Ethics of Transportation.'
Book Edited by Ryan Jenkins, David Cerny, and Tomas Hribek
-Represents a first book-length, interdisciplinary collection on the ethical and social implications of autonomous vehicles.
-Collects the work of leading experts in the field of the ethics of autonomous vehicle.
-Examines a famous philosophical thought experiment in the context of autonomous vehicles, as well as introducing new approaches. Show less

This brief report outlines some of the key opportunities and challenges in AI adoption in the healthcare sector in Africa. Featured in the Mo Ibrahim Foundation’s 2021 Ibrahim Forum Report – Africa & COVID 19: One Year On.

Artificial Intelligence offers a real opportunity to scale our efforts to eradicate modern slavery. One opportunity is the use of AI to ‘read’ the statements produced under mandatory reporting requirements, such as the UK and Australian Modern Slavery Acts, in order to improve transparency.

Reflecting the initial phase of the Artificial Intelligence Against Modern Slavery (AIMS) project, Walk Free, in collaboration with The Future Society, WikiRate, and the Business & Human Rights… Show more

Artificial Intelligence offers a real opportunity to scale our efforts to eradicate modern slavery. One opportunity is the use of AI to ‘read’ the statements produced under mandatory reporting requirements, such as the UK and Australian Modern Slavery Acts, in order to improve transparency.

Reflecting the initial phase of the Artificial Intelligence Against Modern Slavery (AIMS) project, Walk Free, in collaboration with The Future Society, WikiRate, and the Business & Human Rights Resource Centre have published a paper on digital insights into modern slavery reporting, which discusses the challenges and opportunities of machine readability in this area. Show less

The chapter ‘Democratizing AI for Humanity: A Common Goal’ in the new book 'Reflections on Artificial Intelligence for Humanity' (2021, Springer Press) is co-authored by Amir Banifatemi, Nicolas Miailhe, R. Buse Çetin, Alexandre Cadain, Yolanda Lannquist and Cyrus Hodes following the AI Commons event at the Global Forum on AI for Humanity in Paris, France.

El desarrollo de la IA actúa de catapulta del crecimiento económico e innovación con afectación general a todos los sectores. Todo apunta a que dará lugar al monopolio de unas pocas grandes empresas y a una brecha tal vez insuperable entre los países líderes y el resto. Será el factor clave estratégico de la nueva geopolítica.

The rapid development of AI serves as a catapult for economic growth and innovation with a generalized impact across all sectors. Emerging evidence indicates that… Show more

El desarrollo de la IA actúa de catapulta del crecimiento económico e innovación con afectación general a todos los sectores. Todo apunta a que dará lugar al monopolio de unas pocas grandes empresas y a una brecha tal vez insuperable entre los países líderes y el resto. Será el factor clave estratégico de la nueva geopolítica.

The rapid development of AI serves as a catapult for economic growth and innovation with a generalized impact across all sectors. Emerging evidence indicates that AI markets tend toward monopoly dynamics of a few large companies and a perhaps insurmountable gap between the leading countries and the rest. It will be the key strategic factor of the new geopolitics. Show less

If alignment between policymakers and companies for AI governance is paramount, the inevitable question is: how aligned are they currently? What issues are policymakers prioritizing as they focus on emerging applications of AI? To what extent are companies aware of, and planning for, these new issues? The survey covered 12 use cases (applications of AI, such as autonomous vehicles, facial-recognition checkins or algorithmic recruiting) and 11 ethical principles (such as “explainability”… Show more

If alignment between policymakers and companies for AI governance is paramount, the inevitable question is: how aligned are they currently? What issues are policymakers prioritizing as they focus on emerging applications of AI? To what extent are companies aware of, and planning for, these new issues? The survey covered 12 use cases (applications of AI, such as autonomous vehicles, facial-recognition checkins or algorithmic recruiting) and 11 ethical principles (such as “explainability”, “privacy and data rights” or “fairness and non-discrimination”). Show less

As individuals, businesses and governments increasingly rely on digital devices and IT, cyber attacks have increased in number, scale and impact and the attack surface for cyber attacks is expanding. First, this paper lists some of the characteristics of the cybersecurity and AI landscape that are relevant to policy and governance. Second, the paper reviews the ways that AI may affect cybersecurity: through vulnerabilities in AI models and by enabling cyber offence and defense. Third, it… Show more

As individuals, businesses and governments increasingly rely on digital devices and IT, cyber attacks have increased in number, scale and impact and the attack surface for cyber attacks is expanding. First, this paper lists some of the characteristics of the cybersecurity and AI landscape that are relevant to policy and governance. Second, the paper reviews the ways that AI may affect cybersecurity: through vulnerabilities in AI models and by enabling cyber offence and defense. Third, it surveys current governance and policy initiatives at the level of international and multilateral institutions, nation-states, industry and the computer science and engineering communities. Finally, it explores open questions and recommendations relevant to key stakeholders including the public, computing community and policymakers. Some key issues include the extent to which international law applies to cyberspace, how AI will alter the offence-defense balance, boundaries for cyber operations, and how to incentivize vulnerability disclosure. Show less

Over the past few years AI governance and policy actors including companies, regulators and academics have put forward many different approaches to ensure technology companies’ AI development and applications have appropriate ethical and safety precautions. I’ve gathered these into a list that doesn’t aim to analyze but rather to inform all possible options in a ‘toolbox’.

Advances in AI technologies pose opportunities and risks directly impacting progress towards the UN Sustainable Development Goals. In February’s Special Issue of the Delphi Journal focusing on the most pressing issues in the area of AI governance, The Future Society explores AI’s impact on the UN SDGs.

Through an analysis of specific use cases, the paper considers how AI technologies can help achieve progress towards the SDGs as well as how they may inhibit them. Second, it draws out… Show more

Advances in AI technologies pose opportunities and risks directly impacting progress towards the UN Sustainable Development Goals. In February’s Special Issue of the Delphi Journal focusing on the most pressing issues in the area of AI governance, The Future Society explores AI’s impact on the UN SDGs.

Through an analysis of specific use cases, the paper considers how AI technologies can help achieve progress towards the SDGs as well as how they may inhibit them. Second, it draws out practical steps for how AI technologies can be implemented for sustainable development, identifying the barriers that global and local communities need to overcome for implementation. Third, this paper makes the case for multi-stakeholder collaboration and new kinds of “public-private-people” partnerships which will reconcile technical, ethical, legal, commercial, and operational frameworks and protocols to harness the power of AI technologies and deliver solutions to the SDGs. Show less

Report released at the European Parliament in September, 2018

See pages 207-217 of English version of report

With Miguel Angel Guevara
MPP Thesis Project for the U.S. Department of Commerce

The dearth of high-skilled workers is a human capital challenge in India and China, where women are largely underutilized in the workforce. Leveraging women in these labor markets is essential to resolve this shortage and promote economic growth.