The Centre for Cognitive Guidelines in AI

Helping protect human cognition and agency from the potentially harmful effects of AI.

Why we need cognitive guidelines

To adequately prepare for a world with advanced AI, we must measure and protect core functions of the human mind.

Already we can see that AI systems are used as digital advisers, tutors, confidants, and therapists. These interactions have the potential to change how people think, what they believe, and how they make important decisions. This presents new and emerging risks.

CogGuide develops best practice guidelines to help frontier labs make responsible choices related to cognitive security, and to give policymakers and regulators a clear benchmark to hold them to.

How we promote cognitive security

  1. 01

    Review Papers

    Identify emerging issues of concern. Set out the current research and debate on a specific cognitive risk.

    Our cognitive guidelines pipeline

  2. 02

    Cognitive Guidelines

    Evidence-based, expert-reviewed best practice guidelines, with detailed examples and tests developers can run.

    How our guidelines are developed.

    See an example guideline.

  3. 03

    Briefings

    Translate each guideline into concise material for AI labs, policymakers, regulators, researchers, and relevant professional communities.

  4. 04

    Original research

    Identify open questions about how AI affects the mind and run original studies to answer them, published in peer-reviewed journals and presented at conferences.

    Our current research projects

Cognitive capacities worth protecting

CogGuide uses the mental functions defined in the WHO International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) as the foundational map of which aspects of human cognition AI should protect.

Read the full framework →

People

  • Julia Shaw

    Director

    Visiting Researcher at the King’s Institute for Artificial Intelligence and a visitor at the Centre for the Governance of AI.

  • Carla Zoe Cremer

    Advisor

    Founder of AI Psychological Research Coalition, a non-profit network to study how generative artificial intelligence impacts human mental health, cognitive function, and social well-being.

  • Noemi Dreksler

    Advisor

    Senior Research Fellow on the Risk Management Team at the Centre for the Governance of AI (GovAI).

  • Bryce Goodman

    Advisor

    Clarendon Scholar at the University of Oxford. AI strategist and philosopher working on the governance of AI in high-stakes settings.

  • Zaheed Kara

    Advisor

    Research Scholar on the Risk Management Team at the Centre for the Governance of AI (GovAI).

  • Andrew Strait

    Advisor

    Former head of societal resilience at the UK AI Security Institute (AISI). He has moved into AI safety grant making.

Participate

CogGuide welcomes researchers and practitioners who want to join a guideline panel or review a draft guideline, and developers, evaluators and policy bodies who want to propose a new area of work.

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