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Overview

Gillian K. Hadfield is affiliated with the University of Toronto in Canada and focuses primarily on the social sciences, with particular attention to artificial intelligence, safety research, law, health informatics, and economics and econometrics.

The scientist's work addresses multiple topics centered on artificial intelligence and its societal implications. These include:

  • Ethics and Social Impacts of AI
  • Adversarial Robustness in Machine Learning
  • Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI)
  • Reinforcement Learning in Robotics
  • Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and Education
  • Judicial and Constitutional Studies
  • Big Data and Business Intelligence

Frequent publication venues where they have contributed include:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Science
  • Nature
  • Science Advances
  • Journal of Economic Literature

Their recent papers feature collaboration with notable coauthors and cover a range of topics in trustworthy AI and AI risk management. Notable papers include:

  • "Toward Trustworthy AI Development: Mechanisms for Supporting Verifiable Claims," 2020, Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS)
  • "Cooperative AI: machines must learn to find common ground," 2021, Nature
  • "Managing extreme AI risks amid rapid progress," 2024, Science
  • "Gathering Strength, Gathering Storms: The One Hundred Year Study on Artificial Intelligence (AI100) 2021 Study Panel Report," 2022, arXiv (Cornell University)
  • "Toward Trustworthy AI Development: Mechanisms for Supporting Verifiable Claims," 2020, arXiv (Cornell University)

Frequent co-authors of Gillian K. Hadfield include:

  • Markus Anderljung
  • Yoshua Bengio
  • Miles Brundage
  • Jens Meierhenrich
  • Allan Dafoe

In addition to journal articles, the scientist has authored a book published by Cambridge University Press titled The Cambridge Companion to the Rule of Law, 2021.

Best Publications

  • Problematic Relations: Franchising and the Law of Incomplete Contracts

    Gillian K. Hadfield

  • The Price of Law: How the Market for Lawyers Distorts the Justice System

    Gillian K Hadfield

  • Where Have All the Trials Gone? Settlements, Nontrial Adjudications, and Statistical Artifacts in the Changing Disposition of Federal Civil Cases

    Gillian K. Hadfield

  • Cooperative AI: machines must learn to find common ground

    Allan Dafoe;Yoram Bachrach;Gillian Hadfield;Eric Horvitz

  • Legal Barriers to Innovation: The Growing Economic Cost of Professional Control over Corporate Legal Markets

    Gillian K. Hadfield

  • What Is Law? A Coordination Model of the Characteristics of Legal Order

    Gillian K. Hadfield;Barry R. Weingast

  • Judicial Competence and the Interpretation of Incomplete Contracts

    Gillian K. Hadfield

  • Information-Based Principles for Rethinking Consumer Protection Policy

    Gillian K. Hadfield;Robert Howse;Michael J. Trebilcock

  • Higher Demand, Lower Supply? A Comparative Assessment of the Legal Resource Landscape for Ordinary Americans

    Gillian K. Hadfield

  • The Many Legal Institutions that Support Contractual Commitments

    Gillian K. Hadfield

  • Weighing the Value of Vagueness: An Economic Perspective on Precision in the Law

    Gillian K. Hadfield

  • Rules for a Flat World: Why Humans Invented Law and How to Reinvent It for a Complex Global Economy

    Gillian K. Hadfield

  • Toward Trustworthy AI Development: Mechanisms for Supporting Verifiable Claims

    Miles Brundage;Shahar Avin;Jasmine Wang;Haydn Belfield

  • Framing the Choice Between Cash and the Courthouse: Experiences With the 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund

    Gillian K. Hadfield

  • Expressive Theory of Contract: From Feminist Dilemmas to a Reconceptualization of Rational Choice in Contract Law

    Gillian K. Hadfield

  • Toward a 21st-century health care system: Recommendations for health care reform

    Kenneth Arrow;Alan Auerbach;John Bertko;Shannon Brownlee

  • On Public versus Private Provision of Corporate Law

    Gillian K. Hadfield;Eric L. Talley

  • Microfoundations of the Rule of Law

    Gillian K. Hadfield;Barry R. Weingast

  • EXPLORING ECONOMIC AND DEMOCRATIC THEORIES OF CIVIL LITIGATION: DIFFERENCES BETWEEN INDIVIDUAL AND ORGANIZATIONAL LITIGANTS IN THE DISPOSITION OF FEDERAL CIVIL CASES

    Gillilan K. Hadfield

  • The levers of legal design: Institutional determinants of the quality of law

    Gillian K. Hadfield

  • A coordination model of the sexual division of labor

    Gillian K. Hadfield

  • Credible spatial preemption through franchising

    Gillian K. Hadfield

  • Law without the State: Legal Attributes and the Coordination of Decentralized Collective Punishment

    Gillian K. Hadfield;Barry R. Weingast

  • Bias in the evolution of legal rules

    Gillian K. Hadfield

  • Constitutions as Coordinating Devices

    Gillian K Hadfield;Barry R. Weingast

  • Privatizing Commercial Law

    Gillian K. Hadfield

  • What is Law? A Coordination Account of the Characteristics of Legal Order

    Gillian K. Hadfield;Barry R. Weingast

  • Where Have All the Trials Gone? Settlements, Non-trial Adjudications and Statistical Artifacts in the Changing Disposition of Federal Civil Cases

    Gillian K. Hadfield

  • Levers of Legal Design: Institutional Determinants of the Quality of Law

    Gillian K. Hadfield

  • The Problem of Social Order: What Should We Count as Law?

    Gillian K. Hadfield

  • Contract Law is Not Enough: The Many Legal Institutions That Support Contractual Commitments

    Gillian K. Hadfield

  • Rules for Growth: Promoting Innovation and Growth Through Legal Reform

    Robert E. Litan;Yochai Benkler;Henry N. Butler;John Henry Clippinger

  • The Cost of Law: Promoting Access to Justice through the Corporate Practice of Law

    Gillian K. Hadfield

Frequent Co-Authors

Ronald J. Gilson
Ronald J. Gilson Columbia University
Yochai Benkler
Yochai Benkler Harvard University
Michael J. Trebilcock
Michael J. Trebilcock University of Toronto
Mark A. Lemley
Mark A. Lemley Stanford University
Charles F. Sabel
Charles F. Sabel Columbia University
Robert D. Cooter
Robert D. Cooter University of California, Berkeley
Peter H. Schuck
Peter H. Schuck Yale University
Robert E. Scott
Robert E. Scott Columbia University
Adrian Weller
Adrian Weller University of Cambridge
Joel Z. Leibo
Joel Z. Leibo DeepMind (United Kingdom)

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