MILA gets a grant for AI safety research

Dr_Manhattan21 Jul 2017 15:34 UTC

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http://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/global-catastrophic-risks/potential-risks-advanced-artificial-intelligence/montreal-institute-learning-algorithms-ai-safety-research

The really good news is that Yoshua Bengio is leading this (he is extremely credible in modern AI/deep learning world), and this is a pretty large change of mind for him. When I spoke to him at a conference 3 years ago he was pretty dismissive of the whole issue; this year’s FLI conference seems to have changed his mind (kudos to them)

Of course huge props to OpenPhil for pursuing this

Dr_Manhattan21 Jul 2017 15:34 UTC

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LawrenceC 23 Jul 2017 5:06 UTC
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Awesome! I heard a rumor that David Krueger (one of Bengio’s grad students) is one of the main people pushing the safety initiative there, can anyone confirm?
- Vika 25 Jul 2017 21:12 UTC
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  Yes. He runs AI safety meetups at MILA, and played a significant role in getting Yoshua Bengio more interested in safety.
- kvas_it 23 Jul 2017 20:04 UTC
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  I know that David Krueger is one of the people working with 80000 hours on helping people to get into the AI safety field. He also organized a related google group.