Gillian K. Hadfield is the Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of AI Alignment and Governance at Johns Hopkins University. She is a Visiting Faculty Researcher in the Paradigms of Intelligence (Pi) Group at Google, a faculty member of the Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence, and is a Schmidt Sciences AI2050 Senior Fellow. Hadfield's research focuses on innovative design for legal, regulatory, and technical systems for AI, computational models of human normative systems, and building AI systems that understand and respond to human values and norms.
Society is not prepared for a flood of agents. We need new protocols and standards, such as Agent ID, to make agents accountable to our legal and financial systems.