LA Times Names The Alignment Problem Best Science & Technology Book Finalist

25 Mar 2021

The LA Times Book Prizes named The Alignment Problem by Brian Christian a finalist for best Science & Technology book of 2020.

CHAI Faculty and Affiliates Publish at AAAI 2021

18 Mar 2021

CHAI faculty and affiliates presented the following papers at AAAI 2021:

Michael Dennis on TalkRL Podcast

04 Mar 2021

The podcast TalkRL features CHAI graduate student Michael Dennis in a recent episode. 

CHAI Research on Self-Teaching AI Featured in Science

01 Mar 2021

A new article in Science, Who needs a teacher? Artificial intelligence designs lesson plans for itself, features two recent papers from members of CHAI.

Prof. Tom Lenaerts Joins CHAI as Visiting Scholar

14 Feb 2021

Professor Tom Lenaerts joins CHAI as a Visiting Scholar from the Computer Science Department of the Université Libre de Bruxelles.

Stuart Russell on The Munk Debates

09 Feb 2021

Stuart Russell debated Melanie Mitchell, Professor at the Santa Fe Institute, in the latest episode of The Munk Debates, a debate series on major policy issues.

Tom Gilbert Published in IEEE ISTAS20

05 Feb 2021

CHAI researcher Thomas Krendl Gilbert co-authored “AI Development for the Public Interest: From Abstraction Traps to Sociotechnical Risks,” published in IEEE ISTAS20. 

Tom Gilbert Publishes Simons Institute White Paper

Tom Krendl Gilbert published the white paper Mapping the Political Economy of Reinforcement Learning Systems: The Case of Autonomous Vehicles on the Simons Institute website.

Rachel Freedman Speaks at BHS STEMinist Club

15 Jan 2021

On January 11 2021, Rachel Freedman spoke at the Berkeley High School STEMinist Club on the topic of human-compatible AI.

Daniel Filan Launches AI X-risk Research Podcast

06 Jan 2021

In December 2020 CHAI PhD candidate Daniel Filan launched the AI X-risk Research Podcast (AXRP, pronounced axe-urp).