UAI 2019 Accepts Paper by Anca Dragan and Smitha Milli
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:
Michael Wellman Featured in Panel on the Future of AI
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
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.
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.
Joe Halpern Elected to National Academy of Engineers
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.
CHAI Papers at FAT* 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
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.
Former CHAI Intern Wins AI Alignment Prize
Alex Turner, a former CHAI intern, was announced as one of the two winners of the AI alignment prize for his paper on Penalizing Impact via Attainable Utility Preservation. The award is given as the prize of a competition for submitted papers that further understanding in the field of AI safety. More information can be found here.
CHAI Papers at the AAAI 2019 Conference
Many of our staff and faculty submitted papers to the 2019 Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence Conference. Below is a list of the papers and authors who are CHAI faculty:
Anca Dragan Hosts Workshop on Machine Learning for Intelligent Transportation at NeurIPS 2018
Over 150 experts from all areas attended CHAI PI Anca Dragan’s workshop to discuss the challenges involved with machine learning and transportation, such as coordination between both between vehicles and between vehicles and humans, object tracking, and more.