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.

Joseph Halpern Publishes “The Evolution of Cognitive Mechanisms in Response to Cultural Innovations”

25 Jul 2018

CHAI’s Joseph Halpern published this article in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS). The abstract reads:

Why is Facebook Keen on Robots? It’s Just the Future of AI

17 Jul 2018

CHAI faculty members Pieter Abbeel and Bart Selman give their thoughts on Facebook and robots. Read the article here.

Stuart Russell and Anca Dragan Publish Paper on “An Efficient, Generalized Bellman Update For Cooperative Inverse Reinforcement Learning”

16 Jul 2018

CHAI PI Stuart Russell and co-PI Anca Dragan, with a number of other authors from Berkeley’s School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, published “An Efficient, Generalized Bellman Update For Cooperative Inverse Reinforcement Learning” in the Proceedings of the 35th International Conference on Machine Learning in Stockholm, Sweden back in July 2018. The paper’s abstract states that: