Rohin Shah Publishes One Year Retrospective on the Alignment Newsletter

19 Apr 2019

Rohin has been publishing the Alignment Newsletter, a newsletter that summarizes recent papers related to AI safety, for a full year. He recently wrote up his experience with it and estimated how valuable it has been. You can read the review here.

Stuart Russell and Alison Gopnik Featured in Sam Harris’ Podcast

15 Apr 2019

Professor Stuart Russell and Professor Alison Gopnik were on a recent episode of Sam Harris’ Making Sense podcast. The two CHAI PIs were interviewed to discuss their contributions to John Brockman’s new anthology, Possible Minds: 25 Ways of Looking at AI. You can listen to the podcast on Sam Harris’ website.

UAI 2019 Accepts Paper by Anca Dragan and Smitha Milli

20 Mar 2019

Professor Anca Dragan and Smitha Milli’s paper Literal or Pedagogic Human? Analyzing Human Model Misspecification in Objective Learning was accepted to the Association for Uncertainty and Artificial Intelligence 2019. The abstract is reproduced below:

Joe Halpern Becomes Moore Fellow at Cal Tech

Joe Halpern has been accepted as a Moore Distinguished Scholar at Cal Tech’s Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences. You can read more here.

Michael Wellman Featured in Panel on the Future of AI

13 Mar 2019

Michael Wellman was featured on University of Michigan’s Panel on the Future of AI. You can find a video of the panel here.

Rohin Shah Publishes Blog Posts on Learning Preferences

14 Feb 2019

CHAI grad student Rohin Shah published two blog posts on his recent paper Preferences Implicit in the State of the World. The first was Learning Preferences by Looking at the World, published on the Berkeley AI Research (BAIR) Blog. The second blog post was an article of the same name that was published on the AI Alignment Forum. This article went into more of the details and background of the original paper.

Joe Halpern Elected to National Academy of Engineers

13 Feb 2019

CHAI Professor Joe Halpern received one of the highest honors in the field of engineering, joining the National Academy of Engineering for his outstanding contribution to “reasoning about knowledge, belief, and uncertainty and their applications to distributed computing and multiagent systems.” Read more here.

Daniel Filan Publishes Blog Post on Impact Measures

CHAI grad student Daniel Filan published a blog post entitled Test Cases for Impact Measures on the AI Alignment Forum.

CHAI Papers at FAT* 2019

29 Jan 2019

CHAI grad student Smitha Milli attended the ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and
Transparency (ACM FAT*) in Atlanta, Georgia.

Stuart Russell Gives Invited Talk to Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs

21 Jan 2019

Professor Stuart Russell gave a talk to the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs on the risks of autonomous weapons. Professor Russell has been involved in bringing awareness to the risks that autonomous weapons have, calling them the New Weapons of Mass Destruction due to their ability to scale with a small number of human operators.