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ReviewPatterns (New York, N.Y.)2025

Lessons from complex systems science for AI governance.

Noam Kolt, Michal Shur-Ofry, Reuven Cohen

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Review in Patterns (New York, N.Y.), 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Noam KoltFaculty of Law, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel.
Michal Shur-OfryFaculty of Law, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel.
Reuven CohenDepartment of Mathematics, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The study of complex adaptive systems, pioneered in physics, biology, and the social sciences, offers important lessons for artificial intelligence (AI) governance. Contemporary AI systems and the environments in which they operate exhibit many of the properties characteristic of complex systems, including nonlinear growth patterns, emergent phenomena, and cascading effects that can lead to catastrophic failures. Complex systems science can help illuminate the features of AI that pose central challenges for policymakers, such as feedback loops induced by training AI models on synthetic data and the interconnectedness between AI systems and critical infrastructure. Drawing on insights from other domains shaped by complex systems, including public health and climate change, we examine how efforts to govern AI are marked by deep uncertainty. To contend with this challenge, we propose three desiderata for designing a set of complexity-compatible AI governance principles comprised of early and scalable intervention, adaptive institutional design, and risk thresholds calibrated to trigger timely and effective regulatory responses.

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cascading riskscomplex adaptive systemsemergencefeedback loopsregulation and governancescaling

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PMID40843345
PMCPMC12365527

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