What carbon markets can teach us about governing frontier AI
AI governance could mirror carbon markets by regulating physical compute chips, data centers, and energy use rather than subjective model capabilities.
Joel N. Christoph
Joel N. Christoph is a French-Japanese economist and policy researcher working on the governance of advanced AI and its implications for international security, economic resilience, and global cooperation. He is a Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School.
His research focuses on how economic incentives and international coordination can help make advanced AI safer and more governable, including through market-based approaches to compute oversight. He is also the founder of 10Billion.org, an initiative for global public goods.
Joel has conducted research at the Centre for the Governance of AI and Oxford’s Future of Humanity Institute, and has consulted for the World Bank and the International Energy Agency.
A former World Economic Forum Global Shapers Curator and Salzburg Global Fellow, he brings a cross-regional perspective to debates on technology governance and international cooperation. He speaks eight languages.
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