UC Berkeley AI Value Alignment Speaker Series

03 Mar 2022

On March 1, Brian Christian spoke with UC Berkeley students as part of the AI Value Alignment Speaker Series, organized by Mahendra Prasad. The talk was a Q&A about his book The Alignment Problem. Read more about the Speaker Series and Brain Christian’s talk here. 

Brian Christian is a panelist for The Prince Mahidol Award Conference 2022

24 Feb 2022

Brian Christian spoke alongside Former Prime Minister of Norway Gro Bruntland and mRNA vaccine pioneer Katalin Karikó about AI as one of the essential trends affecting the world, and specifically public health, in the 21st century.

Schmidt Futures Launches AI2050 to Protect Our Human Future in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

17 Feb 2022

Stuart Russell has joined the inaugural cohort of AI2050 fellows, which has been tasked with solving the hard problems of AI.

New Papers Published

18 Jan 2022

Some papers that CHAI members have published recently.

Stuart Russell Has Been Selected As Inaugural Director of Kavli Center for Ethics, Science, and the Public

14 Dec 2021

Stuart Russell has been selected to be the inaugural director of the newly created Kavli Center for Ethics, Science, and the Public.

Stuart Russell: The Biggest Event in Human History

04 Dec 2021

In his first BBC Reith Lecture, Stuart Russell asks how artificial intelligence could transform the world – and discusses whether fears of AI are well founded or whether we can learn to make it work for us?

Future of Life Institute: Slaughterbots #2 — if human: kill() and Panel Discussion featuring Stuart Russell

01 Dec 2021

Future of Life institute produced Slaughterbots #2 — if human: kill(), a fictional video stressing the importance of the threat of lethal autonomous weapons ahead of the UN’s Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons in Geneva.

NeurIPS Paper: Scalable Online Planning via Reinforcement Learning Fine-Tuning 12-6

18 Nov 2021

CHAI’s Arnaud Fickinger and Stuart Russell co-authored the paper with Noam Brown, Brandon Amos, and Hengyuan Hu.

NeurIPS Paper: Replay-Guided Adversarial Environment Design 12-6

10 Nov 2021

CHAI’s Michael Dennis co-authored the paper together with Minqi Jiang, Jack Parker-Holder, Jakob Foerster, Edward Grefenstette, and  Tim Rocktäschel.

Brian Christian: Linux Foundation Member Summit Keynote 11-3

05 Nov 2021

Brian Christian gave a keynote address at the annual Linux Foundation Member Summit, which took place from November 2-4.