Presenter Mahendra Prasad, UC Berkeley Mahendra Prasad is a PhD candidate at UC Berkeley in political science. At the 2022 American Political Science Association annual meeting, he served on the roundtable “Effective Altruism and Political Science” with Allan Dafoe, Toby Ord, and Peter Singer. After having gone defunct, Mahendra re-founded the UC Berkeley EA chapter… Continue reading Mahendra Prasad | Background Conditions for Altruistic Intelligence Explosions
Presenter Ghada Almashaqbeh, UConn Ghada is an assistant professor in the Computer Science and Engineering department at UConn. She is also an affiliated member at the Connecticut Advanced Computing Center (CACC) and the Engineering for Human Rights Initiative. Before joining UConn, she spent a while exploring the entrepreneurship world. She cofounded CacheCash, a startup that… Continue reading Ghada Almashaqbeh | Unclonable Polymers and Their Cryptographic Applications
Summary: The AI Safety Grants ProgramThis initiative aims to support critical research into ensuring AI systems are robust, reliable, and beneficial.Foresight has received funding to support projects in three key areas:1. Neurotechnology, brain computer interface, whole brain emulation, and “lo-fi” uploading approaches to produce human-aligned software intelligence2. Computer security, cryptography, and related techniques to… Continue reading Foresight AI Safety Grant & Computer Security Prize Launch
Presenter Kat Woods, The Nonlinear Fund Kat Woods co-founded Charity Entrepreneurship (CE), an OpenPhil-funded neartermist charity incubator. It has launched 18 charities so far, including Fortify Health, Fish Welfare Initiative, Family Empowerment Media, and Training for Good. Kat also co-founded Charity Science Health, which helped vaccinate 200,000+ children in India and received multiple GiveWell… Continue reading Kat Woods | Nonlinear Network Information Session
Presenter Hyrum Anderson, Robust Intelligence Hyrum Anderson is Distinguished ML Engineer at Robust Intelligence. He received his PhD in Electrical Engineering from University of Washington, with an emphasis on signal processing and machine learning, and BS and MS degrees in Electrical Engineering from Brigham Young University. Much of his career has been focused on defense… Continue reading Hyrum Anderson | Securing Machine Learning
Presenter Kevin Esvelt, MIT Media Lab Kevin Michael Esvelt is an American biologist. He is currently an assistant professor at the MIT Media Lab and leads the Sculpting Evolution group. After receiving a B.A. in chemistry and biology from Harvey Mudd College, he completed his PhD work at Harvard University as a Hertz Fellow. Esvelt… Continue reading Kevin Esvelt | Securing Global DNA Synthesis and LLMs Against Risky Hazards
Presenter Puja Ohlhaver Puja Ohlhaver is a lawyer, innovator, and technologist. She is a member of the Getting Plurality Research Group at the Harvard Safra Center for Ethics . She is co-author with Glen Weyl and Vitalik Buterin of “Decentralized Society: Finding Web3’s Soul.” Her writing has been featured in the New York Times, Washington… Continue reading Puja Ohlhaver | Decentralization in the age of AI: Communication, Consensus, and Power
Presenter Lewis Hammond, University of Oxford Lewis is based at the University of Oxford where he is a DPhil candidate in computer science and a DPhil affiliate at the Future of Humanity Institute. He is also the acting executive director of the Cooperative AI Foundation, an affiliate at the Centre for the Governance of AI,… Continue reading Lewis Hammond | Introduction to Cooperative AI
Presenter Stuart Russell Stuart Jonathan Russell is a British computer scientist known for his contributions to artificial intelligence. He is a professor of computer science at the University of California, Berkeley and was from 2008 to 2011 an adjunct professor of neurological surgery at the University of California, San Francisco. He holds the Smith-Zadeh Chair… Continue reading Stuart Russell | Human Compatible AI
Presenter Marta Belcher, Filecoin Foundation Marta Belcher is president and chair of the Filecoin Foundation and head of policy at Protocol Labs. Marta also serves on the Boards of the Zcash Foundation and the Blockchain Association, and is a member of Paradigm’s Policy Council. Marta is a pioneer in blockchain law and policy, and has… Continue reading Marta Belcher, Filecoin Foundation – Privacy & Law in the Age of AI
