CHAI Influences Vox Article

21 Dec 2018

Stuart Russell and Rosie Campbell were quoted in the piece “The Case for Taking AI Seriously as a Threat to Humanity”. It was featured in Vox’s Future Perfect section, which focuses on covering high impact causes such as climate change, AI safety, and animal welfare. The article covers everything from the basics of what AI is to the arguments for why AI could pose a danger to humanity.

Rohin Shah Featured on AI Alignment Podcast

17 Dec 2018

CHAI grad student Rohin Shah was featured on the Future of Humanity Institute’s AI Alignment Podcast where he talked about Inverse Reinforcement Learning and the futuer of value alignment. The podcast can be accessed here.

Actual Causality – a Survey by Joe Halpern

16 Dec 2018

Joe Halpern gave a talk at the Societal Concerns in Algorithms and Data Analysis conference, over mathematical models of causality. The slides can be found here

Stuart Russell Featured in MIT Interview

09 Dec 2018

Stuart Russell was interviewed by Lex Fridman, a research scientist at MIT who focuses on human-centered AI. The long-form interview goes into great detail on general intelligence, progress in AI, current and future AI risks, and much more.

CHAI Attends NeurIPS Conference

08 Dec 2018

CHAI graduate students Rohin Shah, Adam Gleave, Daniel Filan, and Dylan Hadfield-Menell, along with interns Matthew Rahtz and Aaron Tucker, attended the NeurIPS 2018 Conference, where they presented papers, met with researchers, and learned about work in the rest of the field.

Michael Wellman Talks on the Ethics of Autonomous Trading Agents

07 Dec 2018

Professor Michael Wellman has given a series of talks on the ethics of autonomous trading agents.

CHAI Launches Official Twitter Account

31 Oct 2018

The Center for Human-Compatible AI has launched their official Twitter account! You can follow us there for news, conference attendance, new AI safety papers, and more!

CHAI Assistant-Director Named One of Top Women in AI Ethics on Social Media

Rosie Campbell was named by influential technology blogger Mia Dand in one of her recent posts as one of the top one-hundred women to follow on social media for AI ethics. She was also invited to do a fireside chat about AI ethics by the author of the article. You can read about it more in the article here.

CHAI Conference Attendance for October 2018

CHAI faculty and students regularly attend conferences to present their work and keep up to date on the latest in their field. During October 2018, we had many of our members attend conferences all over the world to promote their work.

Guardians, Aliens, Or Robot Overlords? Security In The Age Of Artificial Intelligence. A talk by Prof. Edward Felten, cosponsored by CHAI

11 Oct 2018

Along with the Institute of International Studies, CHAI cosponsored a talk by Prof. Edward Felten on “Guardians, Aliens, Or Robot Overlords? Security In The Age Of Artificial Intelligence”.