Jonathan Stray presented a talk that outlined a three part strategy to ensure that AI systems do not inadvertently escalate political conflict as a result of misaligned optimization and are resistant to bad conflict actors.

On September 28th, 2023, Stuart Russell’s book “Human Compatible: AI and the Problem of Control” has been updated and reissued in UK.

Sana Pandey, who is an intern at CHAI, was featured on CBS News in the Bay Area for her work in recommender system alignment. She discussed what drove her to enter the world of recommender systems and her ongoing work with Jonathan Stray on integrating alternatives to engagement into optimization frameworks. The interview also featured Mark Nitzberg who explained the real-world applications and relevance of the project.

Ahead of the highly anticipated AI Safety Summit, leading AI scientists from the US, the PRC, the UK and other countries agreed on the importance of global cooperation and jointly called for research and policies to prevent unacceptable risks from advanced AI.

As Artificial Intelligence rapidly advances, so do the opportunities and the risks.

In this short consensus paper, the authors outline risks from upcoming, advanced AI systems. They examine large-scale social harms and malicious uses, as well as an irreversible loss of human control over autonomous AI systems. In light of rapid and continuing AI progress, they propose urgent priorities for AI R&D and governance.

Experts advising decision-makers are likely to display expertise which varies as a function of the problem instance. In practice, this may lead to sub-optimal or discriminatory decisions against minority cases.

The Partnership on Information and Democracy have acknowledged the pressing need to develop democratic principles and rules to govern AI in the information space. Democracy and our democratic institutions must decide the ethical use and safeguards of the development, deployment and use of AI. This cannot be left to the private sector who are currently setting the rules of the game. The history of social media illustrates the danger of allowing tech companies to set the rules and ethical uses. Countries must act to safeguard a democratic and trustworthy information space.

Fairness is central to the ethical and responsible development and use of AI systems, with a large number of frameworks and formal notions of algorithmic fairness being available. However, many of the fairness solutions proposed revolve around technical considerations and not the needs of and consequences for the most impacted communities.

On September 7th, 2023, global media platform and magazine TIME published an article spotlighting TIME100 Most Influential People in AI.