David Krueger

David Krueger is an Assistant Professor at the University of Montreal and a member of Mila. His research group focuses on Deep Learning, AI Alignment, AI safety, and AI Policy. He is broadly interested in work (including in areas outside of Machine Learning, e.g. AI governance) that could reduce the risk of human extinction (“x-risk”) resulting from out-of-control AI systems. Particular interests include:

• Reward modeling and reward gaming
• Aligning foundation models
• Understanding learning and generalization in deep learning and foundation models, especially via “empirical theory” approaches
• Preventing the development and deployment of socially harmful AI systems
• Elaborating and evaluating speculative concerns about more advanced future AI systems