CHAI’s Daniel Filan Helps Teach the Next Generation of AI Researchers!
CHAI’s Daniel Filan has spent a considerable amount of time reaching out to early career researchers and educating them on the current state of machine learning. Some of his past contributions include:
- Spoke to ~30 interested students at the Human-Aligned AI Summer School between August 2nd and August 5th about inverse reinforcement learning, CIRL, hierarchical reinforcement learning, and agentmodels.org, and what all of this has to do with AI alignment, as well as being part of a panel discussion.
- Attended the AI Summer Fellows Program between June 27th and July 14th, where I discussed problems in AI alignment with researchers at MIRI and early-career/potential AI alignment researchers, as well as giving a brief overview of what CHAI does and my views on AI safety.
- Attended EA Global SF June 8-10, where I met with other early-career and mature researchers in the AI alignment space, and spoke to a variety of people about career opportunities at CHAI.
- Attended the CHAI workshop April 27-30, meeting a variety of researchers working on or interested in AI alignment, discussing both relevant research and future research directions for the field.
- Attended an event on the 7th of April where MIRI and CHAI researchers got together and discussed/worked on problems of mutual interest.
- Attended ICML 2017 August 6-11 2018, attending a variety of talks and poster sessions, and having discussions with researchers about the state of contemporary machine learning