Publications
2024
"AI Models Falter Answering Election Questions in Spanish," The AI Democracy Projects, October 30.
United Nations High-Level Advisory Body on Artificial Intelligence. Governing AI for Humanity. Office of the UN Secretary General, September.
Bengio, Yoshua, Alondra Nelson, Benjamin Prud’homme, B. Ravindran, Yi Zeng, Carme Artigas, Ran Balicer, Peter Gluckman, Timo Harakka, Jaan Tallinn, Jian Wang, Mariano-Florentino (Tino) Cuellar, Amal El Fallah Seghrouchni, Brian Tse, Jung-Woo Ha, Seydina Moussa Ndiaye, Dan Hendrycks, Rumman Chowdhury, Rumman Chowdhury, James Manyika, and Francesca Rossi. Manhattan Declaration on Inclusive Global Scientific Understanding of Artificial Intelligence. September.
Rishi Bommasani, Sanjeev Arora, Yejin Choi, Daniel E. Ho, Dan Jurafsky, Sanmi Koyejo, Hima Lakkaraju, Fei‑Fei Li, Arvind Narayanan, Alondra Nelson, Emma Pierson, Joelle Pineau, Gaël Varoquaux, Suresh Venkatasubramanian, Ion Stoica, Percy Liang, Dawn Song. A Path for Science‑ and Evidence‑based AI Policy, September.
Ippolyti Dellatolass, Scientific expertise and public engagement in science policy: A conversation with Dr. Alondra Nelson, MIT Science Policy Review, August.
Kapoor, Sayash, Rishi Bommasani, Kevin Klyman, Shayne Longpre, Ashwin Ramaswami, Peter Cihon, Aspen Hopkins, Kevin Bankston, Stella Biderman, Miranda Bogen, Rumman Chowdhury, Alex Engler, Peter Henderson, Yacine Jernite, Seth Lazar, Stefano Maffulli, Alondra Nelson, Joelle Pineau, Aviya Skowron, Dawn Song, Victor Storchan, Daniel Zhang, Daniel E. Ho, Percy Liang, and Arvind Narayanan. On the Societal Impact of Open Foundation Models, Proceedings of the 41st International Conference on Machine Learning, PMLR 235:23082-23104, July.
Nelson, Alondra and Ami Fields-Meyer, The AI Dangers of a Second Trump Presidency, Tech Policy Press, July 22.
AI Policy and Governance Working Group. Recommendations to the US Department of Commerce (NTIA) on Open Foundation AI Models, Institute for Advanced Study, March.
Angwin, Julia, Alondra Nelson, and Rina Palta. Seeking Reliable Election Information? Don’t Trust AI. The AI Democracy Projects, February 27.
Palta, Rina, Julia Angwin, and Alondra Nelson. How We Tested Leading AI Models’ Performance on Election Queries. The AI Democracy Projects, February 27.
Nelson, Alondra. The Right Way To Regulate AI. Foreign Affairs, January 12.
2023
Sonja van Wichelen, Joy Rohde, Diana Graizbord, Christo Sims, and Joshua Barkan, Eds. Science and the State. A Special Issue of Public Culture. November.
Nelson, Alondra. Statement to the United States Senate AI Insight Forum on Innovation, October 24.
AI Policy and Governance Working Group. Recommendations on Global AI Governance to the United Nations Secretary-General’s Envoy on Technology, Institute for Advanced Study, September 30.
Lazar, Seth and Alondra Nelson. AI Safety on Whose Terms? (Editorial), Science. July 13.
AI Policy and Governance Working Group. Comment of the AI Policy and Governance Working Group on the NTIA AI Accountability Policy Request for Comment, Institute for Advanced Study, June 12.
Nelson, Alondra. AI Is Having a Moment—and Policymakers Cannot Squander the Opportunity to Act, Center for American Progress, April 11.