AI Reports · GovAI (Oxford) · 2026-10-17 · Research paper
AI Regulation Safety Cases for Frontier AI October 2024 Research Paper Marie Davidsen Buhl, Gaurav Sett, Leonie Koessler, Jonas Schuett, Markus Anderljung As frontier artificial intelligence (AI) syst
This paper explains why safety cases, structured evidence-based arguments that a system is safe enough, may be useful in frontier AI governance for both industry self-regulation and government regulation. Safety cases are already common in safety-critical industries such as aviation and nuclear power. It also discusses how to produce a frontier AI safety case and what must happen before safety cases can substantially inform decisions.