CAIAC & Responsible Tech Club @ Columbia SIPA | Presentation + Q&A | Haakon Huynh | Shared Compute Hubs: A Pathway for Equitable AI Compute

​In response to growing compute concentration, this Oxford Martin School AI Governance Initiative working paper proposes an institutional blueprint for multinational compute-sharing. To leverage economies of scale and increase collective bargaining power, the proposal involves multiple countries jointly financing and governing a shared compute cluster.

Haakon will walk through the legal-institutional mechanisms underpinning a compute partnership, and examine how technical verification, export controls, and federated computing fit into a broader framework for international AI governance.

​Haakon Huynh is an AI policy researcher focusing on global compute governance, working with the Oxford Martin School AI Governance Initiative and the Future Economies Kuwait Research lab at Columbia School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA). He draws on experience in international diplomacy at the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the United Nations in Geneva, grounding his policy recommendations in practical feasibility.