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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.
Joseph Halpern Publishes “Combining the Causal Judgments of Experts with Possibly Different Focus Areas”
04 Sep 2018
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:
CHAI’s Daniel Filan Helps Teach the Next Generation of AI Researchers!
CHAI’s Daniel Filan has spent a considerable amount of time reaching out to early career researchers and educating them on the current state of machine learning. Some of his past contributions include:
Joe Halpern’s Past Year of Talks
Joe Halpern has been busy with the past year, giving talks on a variety of subjects everywhere from Israel to China. These include:
Congratulations to Anca Dragan on Her Achievements this Year
03 Sep 2018
This year, Anca Dragan has recieved the following achievements in her efforts to promote human-compatible artificial intelligence:
Anca Around the World – Conferences from the Past Year
Anca Dragan has been busy the past year, attending conferences and delivering talks everywhere from Berkeley to Switzerland to promote the safe development of AI and robotics. In the past year, she has attended a variety of events, including:
CHAI Students at Workshop on AI Alignment
26 Aug 2018
This weekend workshop brought together research interns from MIRI and UC Berkeley’s Center for Human-Compatible AI (CHAI) for the second workshop on approaches to AI alignments to discuss conceptual foundations and open problems in AI safety research.