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Sébastien Krier's Published Works
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>>> ACADEMIC PAPERS & RESEARCH <<< |
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The Ethics of Advanced AI Assistants Authors: Google DeepMind team (incl. Sébastien Krier) Date: April 2024 Publication: arXiv  READ IT! Google DeepMind Blog Post
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AGI, Governments, and Free Societies Authors: Justin B. Bullock, Samuel Hammond, Seb Krier Date: March 2025 (arXiv) • Republished as Ch. 17 of The Art of Digital Governance (Springer, 2025) Publication: arXiv (2503.05710); Springer (Public Administration, Governance and Globalization, vol. 6), pp. 327–361 READ IT! Springer book chapter
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Multi-Agent Risks from Advanced AI Authors: Lewis Hammond, Alan Chan, Jesse Clifton, et al. (incl. Sébastien Krier) Date: February 2025 Publication: Cooperative AI Foundation, Technical Report #1 • arXiv (2502.14143) READ IT!
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An Approach to Technical AGI Safety and Security Authors: Rohin Shah, Alex Irpan, et al. (incl. Sébastien Krier) — Google DeepMind Date: April 2025 Publication: arXiv (2504.01849) READ IT!
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Societal and technological progress as sewing an ever-growing, ever-changing, patchy, and polychrome quilt Authors: Joel Z. Leibo, Alexander Sasha Vezhnevets, William A. Cunningham, Sébastien Krier, Manfred Diaz, Simon Osindero Date: May 2025 Publication: arXiv (2505.05197) READ IT! LessWrong version
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Distributional AGI Safety Authors: Nenad Tomašev, Matija Franklin, Julian Jacobs, Sébastien Krier, Simon Osindero Date: December 2025 (revised v2: May 2026) Publication: arXiv (2512.16856) READ IT! Featured on Marginal Revolution!
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Positive Alignment: Artificial Intelligence for Human Flourishing Authors: Ruben Laukkonen, Seb Krier, Chloé Bakalar, et al. (16 authors) Date: May 2026 Publication: arXiv (2605.10310) READ IT!
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Position: Comprehensive AI Governance Requires Addressing Non-Model Capability Gains Authors: Arthur Goemans, Dan Altman, Noemi Dreksler, et al. (incl. Sébastien Krier & Allan Dafoe) Date: May 2026 (arXiv) • Presented at ICML 2026, July 2026 Publication: ICML 2026, Position Paper Track • arXiv (2606.00047) READ IT! GovAI research page
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Role Steering of Language Models for Social Simulations Authors: Isaac Song, Mohammed Rehan Parwani, Glenn Matlin, et al. (incl. Yonadav G. Shavit, Sébastien Krier & Mark Riedl) Date: July 2026 Publication: Social Sim'26 Workshop, COLM 2026 • arXiv (2608.00023) READ IT!
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Making the UK the Best Place in the World for AI Innovation Author: Sébastien Krier Date: March 2021 Publication: The Entrepreneurs Network READ IT!
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Open-Source Provisions for Large Models in the AI Act Authors: Harry Law, Sébastien A. Krier Date: August 2023 Publication: Cambridge Journal of Science & Policy, Vol. 4(1) READ IT! Cambridge Apollo Repository
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Governing Artificial Intelligence in the Public Interest Authors: Mariana Mazzucato, Marietje Schaake, Sébastien Krier, Joshua Entsminger Date: July 2022 Publication: UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose, Working Paper IIPP WP 2022/12 (co-published w/ Stanford Cyber Policy Center) READ IT!
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Assessing Trustworthy AI in Times of COVID-19 Authors: Allahabadi, Amann, Balot, et al. (incl. Sébastien A. Krier) — large multi-author consortium Date: December 2022 Publication: IEEE Transactions on Technology and Society, 3(4), 272–289 (Special Issue: After COVID-19) READ IT!
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Benchmarking for Breakthroughs: How to Incentivize AI for National Priorities Authors: Séb Krier, Zach Wang Date: August 11, 2025 Publication: The Launch Sequence — Institute for Progress (IFP), Washington, D.C. READ IT!
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AI from Superintelligence to ChatGPT Author: Sébastien Krier Date: December 8, 2022 Publication: Works in Progress, Issue 09 READ IT!
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>>> POLICY SUBMISSIONS <<< (AI Policy & Governance Working Group, convened by the Institute for Advanced Study — co-signatory) |
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Recommendations to the US Department of Commerce NTIA on Policy for AI Accountability Comment on the NTIA AI Accountability Policy Request for Comment (Docket NTIA-230407-0093) • June 12, 2023 READ IT! Regulations.gov filing
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Recommendations to the United Nations on Global AI Governance Response to the UN Secretary-General's Envoy on Technology's Call for Papers on Global AI Governance • September 2023 READ IT!
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Recommendations to the US Department of Commerce NTIA on Dual-Use, Open-Weight Foundation AI Models Comment on the NTIA Request for Comment on Dual Use Foundation AI Models with Widely Available Model Weights (Docket NTIA-240216-0052) • March 27, 2024 READ IT! Regulations.gov filing
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>>> BLOG POSTS <<< |
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~*~ Essays ~*~ |
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Positive-sum symbiosis Why you should (sometimes) be kind to AIs • August 2, 2024 READ IT!
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An agents economy February 4, 2025 READ IT!
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Maintaining agency and control in an age of accelerated intelligence Climbing the ladder of abstraction • April 10, 2025 READ IT!
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AGI, Government, and the Free Society Essay adaptation of the arXiv paper with Bullock & Hammond • June 9, 2025 READ IT!
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Three challenges facing compute-based AI policies Co-authored with: Venkat Somala & Anson Ho • September 12, 2025 READ IT!
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Coasean Bargaining at Scale Decentralisation, coordination, and co-existence with AGI • September 29, 2025 READ IT! Co-published @ Cosmos Institute (September 26, 2025) Featured on Marginal Revolution!
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Séb Krier's Top 8 AI Reads of the Year December 18, 2025 READ IT!
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The Cyborg Era: What AI means for jobs Ghosts of Electricity (Substack, hosted by Alex Imas) • January 8, 2026 READ IT!
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Musings on Recursive Self-Improvement Hard takeoffs are... hard • Technologik (personal Substack) • April 10, 2026 READ IT!
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Séb Krier's 8 Summer Reads Your vacation, sorted • August 11, 2026 READ IT!
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Of Swarms and Sand Gods Alignment in a multi-agent world • Cosmos Institute (guest essay) • August 21, 2026 READ IT!
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>>> GOOGLE DEEPMIND BLOG POSTS <<< (credited contributor) |
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The ethics of advanced AI assistants April 19, 2024 • Google DeepMind Blog READ IT!
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Updating the Frontier Safety Framework February 4, 2025 • Google DeepMind Blog READ IT!
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>>> TALKS & INVITED LECTURES <<< |
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(Un)Leashing Artificial Intelligence? Panel with Lionel Tarassenko & Melanie Garson, chaired by Yves-Alexandre de Montjoye • Institut français, London • February 8, 2024 WATCH IT!
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AI in the next 5 years: what to expect ART-AI Seminar Series, University of Bath (UKRI CDT in Accountable, Responsible & Transparent AI) • May 14, 2024 EVENT PAGE
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Transitions to Transformative AI Panel with Justin Bullock, Rumman Chowdhury & Sam Manning, moderated by Seth Lazar • Artificial Intelligence and Democratic Freedoms symposium, Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University • April 11, 2025 WATCH IT! EVENT PAGE
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AI in the Machinery of Government Roots of Progress — Progress Conference 2025, Lighthaven, Berkeley CA • October 17, 2025 WATCH IT!
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Frontier AI: State of Play and Where We Are Heading Invited speaker, Session on Technological Advances • IMF Workshop on the Global Economic and Financial Implications of AI (co-organised with EconTAI, University of Virginia) • IMF HQ, Washington D.C. • December 10–11, 2025 Cited in IMF Note 2026/002
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AI agents and what the next 5 years look like Closed-door briefing for U.S. congressional staff • Institute for Progress & Foundation for American Innovation, Washington D.C. • December 12, 2025 |
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Who Should Decide AI's Future? A Public Conversation on Governing Frontier Technology Public panel • NYU–KAIST Summit on Building Governance Infrastructure for Frontier AI, New York University • February 7, 2026 WATCH IT!
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Preserving Human Competence in an Age of AI Panel • Foundation for American Innovation & American Compass, Washington D.C. • February 11, 2026 |
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Coasean Bargaining at Scale Invited guest lecture • Touro Law Center (Prof. Gabriel Weil) • March 2, 2026 |
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Governing the AGI Commons Co-organizer & presenter • Invitation-only workshop, Oxford • co-hosted by the Cooperative AI Foundation and Google DeepMind • March 4, 2026 |
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Q&A on Frontier AI Policy Invited guest speaker • Columbia University (Prof. Daniel Björkegren) • April 24, 2026 |
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Foresight's AI Salon with Sébastien Krier Fireside chat on Distributional AGI Safety, frontier policy, strategy & AI ethics • Foresight Institute, The Fold, San Francisco • May 20, 2026 EVENT PAGE
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AI and Human Flourishing Address & panel with Brendan McCord, Danielle Perszyk & Daniel Williams, moderated by Whitney Zimmerman • New Enlightenment Conference, Panmure House, Edinburgh • June 10, 2026 WATCH IT!
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Vision Weekend USA 2026 *** COMING SOON! *** Main track speaker • Foresight Institute, San Francisco • November 13–15, 2026 EVENT PAGE
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>>> PODCAST & INTERVIEW APPEARANCES <<< |
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Faster, Please! — The Podcast #55 AEI, with Jim Pethokoukis • August 9, 2024 LISTEN / READ!
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The Trajectory — AGI Governance, Episode 1 with Dan Faggella • November 15, 2024 LISTEN / READ!
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Justified Posteriors — Seb Krier on AGI, the Coasean Singularity, and EDM with Seth Benzell & Andrey Fradkin • May 19, 2026 LISTEN / READ! WATCH IT!
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