Johns Hopkins launches GAIT initiative on governing the AI transition, hiring director
soumitrashukla9 · x · 2026-09-03
- Seth Lazar, Gillian Hadfield, and Nick Acaputo are building the GAIT (Governing the AI Transition) initiative at JHU's Bloomberg Center to help society navigate the transition to powerful AI, with post-AGI futures research in the public interest.
- Lazar and Hadfield will serve as faculty co-directors; they are hiring a founding GAIT director with significant autonomy and impact potential.
- Commenters see it as further evidence of academia taking AI seriously.
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