AI Reports · GovAI (Oxford) · 2026-10-17 · Research paper
AI Regulation Computing Power and the Governance of Artificial Intelligence February 2024 Research Paper Girish Sastry, Lennart Heim, Haydn Belfield, Markus Anderljung, Miles Brundage, Julian Hazell,
The paper argues that computing power is an effective point of intervention for governing AI, because it is detectable, excludable, quantifiable, and produced through a concentrated supply chain. It notes that governments and companies have started to use compute in AI policy, though the readiness of different compute-based policies varies. It warns that poorly scoped approaches could create risks for privacy, economic impacts, and centralization of power, and suggests guardrails to minimize them.