Ram Rachum

In his previous career, Ram was a software engineer at Google, Dell and other software companies. Ram has been a contributor and activist in the open-source software community since 2009, and in 2020 he was honored as a Fellow of the Python Software Foundation.

In 2022 Ram fell in love with AI Safety research and made a career change. Ram is an AI Safety researcher at the GOLD lab in Tufts University, and a research intern at CHAI.

Ram believes that reproducing emergent social behavior in AI agents is the most likely path to creating an AI that has a social and moral understanding. We humans interact socially with each other our entire lives, and the mass of positive and negative interactions that we have determine our character and our ethical principles. Ram suggests that in order to create an AGI which will take the well-being of humans into account, we should break down the social skills that we humans take for granted, and design AI agents that are able to discover them and apply them to interactions with other agents and with humans.

Read more on Ram’s research site.