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 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.

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

Some papers that CHAI members have published recently.

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

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 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.

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

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

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