Gillian Hadfield
Professor of AI Alignment and Governance, Johns Hopkins University
Signed the letter · Academia · United States
Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of AI Alignment and Governance at Johns Hopkins University, with appointments in the School of Government and Policy and the Whiting School of Engineering. Previously Schwartz Reisman Chair in Technology and Society at the University of Toronto, where she directed the Schwartz Reisman Institute, and professor at the USC Gould School of Law. Senior policy adviser to OpenAI from 2018 to 2023. Author of 'Rules for a Flat World' (Oxford University Press, 2016) and co-author of 'Managing extreme AI risks amid rapid progress' (Science, 2024). JD and PhD in economics from Stanford University. Signed the wemustactnow.ai open letter.
AI-written Documented facts only, from the sources below.
20 works in the co-authorship map · 1,291 citations across them
Sources
In the network
17 co-authors on the map · PageRank #9 of 400 · bridge #31 of 400 · 2 steps from Erik Brynjolfsson · cluster: AI safety and governance.
Measured on this map only, which grows out of the letter's signatories; what these numbers mean. See Gillian Hadfield on the map
Documented positions
Will AI actually boost productivity and growth? unknown
No documented evidence reviewed yet.
Will AI destroy more jobs than it creates? unknown
No documented evidence reviewed yet.
Will AI widen inequality? unknown
No documented evidence reviewed yet.
Should governments act on AI now? agrees
Legal scholar whose research program designs AI governance — regulatory markets, compute governance, and international institutions — arguing current legal infrastructure is not ready.
Evidence
How fast will the impact arrive? leans agree
Writes that an economy of AI agents is emerging and institutions must adapt quickly.
Evidence
Selected work
- Rules for a Flat World: Why Humans Invented Law and How to Reinvent It for a Complex Global Economy
- Managing extreme AI risks amid rapid progress
- Computing Power and the Governance of Artificial Intelligence
Writes with
Miles Brundage (4), Barry R. Weingast (3), Cullen O’Keefe (3), Shahar Avin (3), Yoshua Bengio (3), Allan Dafoe (2), Eric Horvitz (2), Haydn Belfield (2), Jack Clark (2), Robert Trager (2), Adrian Weller (1), Andrew Koh (1)
Co-authors on the map, by papers written together (12 of 17 shown).
Something wrong? Request a correction.