Presenter Fazl Barez, PhD student Edinburgh/Oxford and Co-director at Apart My name is Fazl-Kiko. I am a PhD researcher at Edinburgh Centre For Robotics and visiting PhD Scholar at University of Oxford. I am also a research affiliate at CSER at University of Cambridge and AI safety community researcher at Future of Life Institue. Previously,… Continue reading Fazl Barez | Interpretability for Safety and Alignment @ Intelligent Cooperation Workshop
Presenter Keenan Pepper, Salesforce Graduate student, University of California, Berkeley, physics department. Lead Software Engineer at Salesforce Summary: Keenan Pepper proposes a research direction to address safety and alignment concerns in AI, focusing on embedded agents. Embedded agents exist within their environment, which can impact their cognition and introduce manipulation risks. Studying environments with embedded… Continue reading Keenan Pepper | Environments for Empirical Embedded Agency Research @ IC Workshop
Presenter Tristan Harris, Center for Humane Technology Tristan is Co-Founder & Executive Director of the Center for Humane Technology (CHT), a nonprofit organization whose mission is to align technology with humanity’s best interests. He regularly briefs heads of state, technology CEOs, and US Congress members, in addition to mobilizing millions of people around the world… Continue reading Tristan Harris | AI Dilemma & Policy @ Intelligent Cooperation Workshop
Presenter Shady El Damaty, Holonym Shady El Damaty, Ph.D., is a co-founder at Holonym, a zero-knowledge identity protocol for producing private proofs of verified credentials, and founded OpSci, a non-profit developing tooling for web-native open science practice. Shady has a Ph.D. in neuroscience with expertise in MR pulse sequence development and ML/AI for neural signal… Continue reading Shady El Damaty | Decentralized Voluntary Cooperation @ Intelligent Cooperation Workshop
Presenter Rick Korzewka, AI Impacts Rick is the Director at AI Impacts, where he started as a researcher in 2019. He splits his time between running the organization and doing research. His current research interests are analyzing AI progress in the context of human performance, learning from the past about how we can confront big… Continue reading Rick Korzewka | Technical Projects for Easier Cooperation @ Intelligent Cooperation Workshop
Presenter Rob Luke, AE Studio Robert Luke has a diverse work experience in the fields of science and engineering. Robert started their career as a researcher at Bionics Institute in 2010, where they worked until 2011. After that, they joined Honeywell as a Control Systems Engineer for a year. In 2016, they transitioned to Cirrus… Continue reading Rob Luke | Intelligent Cooperation and Brain-Computer Interfaces @ Intelligent Cooperation Workshop
Presenter Marta Belcher, Filecoin Foundation Cryptocurrency & civil liberties attorney; President & Chair, Filecoin Foundation & FFDW; GC & Head of Policy, Protocol Labs; Special Counsel, EFF; Board, Blockchain Association, Creative Commons & Zcash Foundation Summary: Marta Belcher is the president and chair of the FileCoin Foundation and the head of policy at Protocol Labs.… Continue reading Marta Belcher | Fireside chat on Crypto, AI & Civil Liberties @ Intelligent Cooperation Workshop
Presenter Evan Miyazono, Protocol Labs Evan is the team lead for Research at Protocol Labs. He has lived in California his whole life, bouncing between NorCal and SoCal. He spent enough of his childhood at beaches that a sandy shore always feels familiar; the rest was spent sitting at a computer, reading books, or disassembling… Continue reading Evan Miyazono | Controllable AI with Open Agency Systems @ Intelligent Cooperation Workshop
Presenter Jan Leike, OpenAI Alignment team lead at OpenAI; Research Associate at the Future of Humanity Institute. My research aims to make progress on the alignment problem. The central question I’m studying is: How can we design competitive, scalable, and general machine learning algorithms that act in accordance with their user’s intentions? I lead the… Continue reading Jan Leike | Super Intelligent Alignment @ Intelligent Cooperation Workshop
Presenter Brendon Wong, Cosmic I’m a social and tech entrepreneur passionate about societal transformation and life improvement. To advance societal transformation, I cofounded Roote, a $1M+ nonprofit working on improving societal systems. These systems range from mitigating the causes of existential threats to humanity (meta existential risk) to making digital feeds less addictive and divisive,… Continue reading Brendon Wong | Safety First Cognitive Architectures @ Intelligent Cooperation Workshop
