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CHAI Assistant-Director Named One of Top Women in AI Ethics on Social Media
31 Oct 2018
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.
CHAI Launches Official Twitter Account
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!
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”.
European Parliament Passes Resolution on Autonomous Weapons
21 Sep 2018
European Parliament recently passed a resolution on September 12, 2018 which advocted for a ban on lethal autonomous weapon systems (LAWS), calling it a matter of urgency and demanding that meaningful human control is maintained.
AI Safety and CHAI Mentioned in Latest TED Talk
12 Sep 2018
Professor William MacAskill, a professor of philosophy at Oxford University and leader in the Effective Altruism movement, mentioned AI safety as a research priority and mentioned CHAI in this TED Talk given at the official TED 2018 conference. You can watch the original video here.
Joe Halpern’s Past Year of Talks
04 Sep 2018
Joe Halpern has been busy with the past year, giving talks on a variety of subjects everywhere from Israel to China. These include:
Joseph Halpern Publishes “Combining the Causal Judgments of Experts with Possibly Different Focus Areas”
CHAI’s Joseph Halpern and his student Meir Friedenberg from Cornell University published this paper in the 2019 Conference on Knowledge Representation and Reasoning. The abstract reads:
CHAI’s Jaime Fisac’s Past Talks and Conference Attendance
CHAI’s Jaime Fisac recently attended three conferences where he presented his research on the safe development of artificial intelligence. These include: