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February 5, 2019/by Jolene Creighton

The Breakdown of the INF: Who’s to Blame for the Collapse of the Landmark Nuclear Treaty?

On February 1, a little more than 30 years after it went…

December 21, 2018/by Ariel Conn

Planning for Existential Hope

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December 17, 2018/by Kirsten Gronlund

Updates From the COP24 Climate Change Meeting

December 12, 2018/by Jolene Creighton

How to Create AI That Can Safely Navigate Our World — An Interview With Andre Platzer

December 11, 2018/by Ariel Conn

FLI Signs Safe Face Pledge

Podcasts

January 31, 2019/by Ariel Conn

FLI Podcast: AI Breakthroughs and Challenges in 2018 with David Krueger and Roman Yampolskiy

Every January, we like to look back over the past 12 months…

January 30, 2019/by Lucas Perry

AI Alignment Podcast: The Byzantine Generals’ Problem, Poisoning, and Distributed Machine Learning with El Mahdi El Mhamdi (Beneficial AGI 2019)

January 24, 2019/by Ariel Conn

FLI Podcast- Artificial Intelligence: American Attitudes and Trends with Baobao Zhang

January 17, 2019/by Lucas Perry

AI Alignment Podcast: Cooperative Inverse Reinforcement Learning with Dylan Hadfield-Menell (Beneficial AGI 2019)

December 21, 2018/by Ariel Conn

Podcast: Existential Hope in 2019 and Beyond

Artificial Intelligence News

December 17, 2018/by Lucas Perry

AI Alignment Podcast: Inverse Reinforcement Learning and the State of AI Alignment with Rohin Shah

What role does inverse reinforcement learning (IRL) have…

December 5, 2018/by a guest blogger

Highlights From NeurIPS 2018

October 18, 2018/by Lucas Perry

AI Alignment Podcast: On Becoming a Moral Realist with Peter Singer

October 8, 2018/by Tucker Davey

Cognitive Biases and AI Value Alignment: An Interview with Owain Evans

Biotechnology News

November 30, 2018/by Ariel Conn

Podcast: Governing Biotechnology, From Avian Flu to Genetically-Modified Babies with Catherine Rhodes

A Chinese researcher recently made international news…

November 20, 2018/by a guest blogger

Benefits & Risks of Biotechnology

October 12, 2018/by Kirsten Gronlund

Genome Editing and the Future of Biowarfare: A Conversation with Dr. Piers Millett

October 11, 2018/by Ariel Conn

Podcast: Martin Rees on the Prospects for Humanity: AI, Biotech, Climate Change, Overpopulation, Cryogenics, and More

October 23, 2018/by Jolene Creighton

Trump to Pull US Out of Nuclear Treaty

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September 27, 2018/by Ariel Conn

Podcast: AI and Nuclear Weapons – Trust, Accidents, and New Risks with Paul Scharre and Mike Horowitz

September 26, 2018/by Max Tegmark

$50,000 Award to Stanislav Petrov for helping avert WWIII – but US denies visa

May 31, 2018/by Ariel Conn

Podcast: Nuclear Dilemmas, From North Korea to Iran

November 28, 2018/by Jolene Creighton

US Government Releases Its Latest Climate Assessment, Demands Immediate Action

At the end of last week, amidst the flurry of holiday shopping,…

October 31, 2018/by Ariel Conn

Podcast: Can We Avoid the Worst of Climate Change? with Alexander Verbeek and John Moorhead

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October 16, 2018/by Ariel Conn

IPCC 2018 Special Report Paints Dire — But Not Completely Hopeless — Picture of Future

May 24, 2018/by a guest blogger

What Can We Learn From Cape Town’s Water Crisis?

Congratulations to the 2018 AGI Project Grant Recipients!

Congratulations to all the researchers who were awarded grants to further the science behind AGI safety. Click on the award icon to learn more about their research.