Real-World Gaps in AI Governance Research

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Main Authors: Strauss, Ilan, Moure, Isobel, O'Reilly, Tim, Rosenblat, Sruly
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Published: 2025
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author Strauss, Ilan
Moure, Isobel
O'Reilly, Tim
Rosenblat, Sruly
author_facet Strauss, Ilan
Moure, Isobel
O'Reilly, Tim
Rosenblat, Sruly
contents Drawing on 1,178 safety and reliability papers from 9,439 generative AI papers (January 2020 - March 2025), we compare research outputs of leading AI companies (Anthropic, Google DeepMind, Meta, Microsoft, and OpenAI) and AI universities (CMU, MIT, NYU, Stanford, UC Berkeley, and University of Washington). We find that corporate AI research increasingly concentrates on pre-deployment areas -- model alignment and testing & evaluation -- while attention to deployment-stage issues such as model bias has waned. Significant research gaps exist in high-risk deployment domains, including healthcare, finance, misinformation, persuasive and addictive features, hallucinations, and copyright. Without improved observability into deployed AI, growing corporate concentration could deepen knowledge deficits. We recommend expanding external researcher access to deployment data and systematic observability of in-market AI behaviors.
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Strauss, Ilan
Moure, Isobel
O'Reilly, Tim
Rosenblat, Sruly
Artificial Intelligence
Drawing on 1,178 safety and reliability papers from 9,439 generative AI papers (January 2020 - March 2025), we compare research outputs of leading AI companies (Anthropic, Google DeepMind, Meta, Microsoft, and OpenAI) and AI universities (CMU, MIT, NYU, Stanford, UC Berkeley, and University of Washington). We find that corporate AI research increasingly concentrates on pre-deployment areas -- model alignment and testing & evaluation -- while attention to deployment-stage issues such as model bias has waned. Significant research gaps exist in high-risk deployment domains, including healthcare, finance, misinformation, persuasive and addictive features, hallucinations, and copyright. Without improved observability into deployed AI, growing corporate concentration could deepen knowledge deficits. We recommend expanding external researcher access to deployment data and systematic observability of in-market AI behaviors.
title Real-World Gaps in AI Governance Research
topic Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.00174