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April 9, 2019/by Kirsten Gronlund

Dr. Matthew Meselson Wins 2019 Future of Life Award

On April 9th, Dr. Matthew Meselson received the $50,000 Future…

March 29, 2019/by Kirsten Gronlund

Women for the Future

March 21, 2019/by Jolene Creighton

The Problem of Self-Referential Reasoning in Self-Improving AI: An Interview with Ramana Kumar, Part 2

March 19, 2019/by Jolene Creighton

The Unavoidable Problem of Self-Improvement in AI: An Interview with Ramana Kumar, Part 1

February 28, 2019/by Ariel Conn

FLI Podcast (Part 1): From DNA to Banning Biological Weapons With Matthew Meselson and Max Tegmark

Podcasts

April 11, 2019/by Lucas Perry

AI Alignment Podcast: An Overview of Technical AI Alignment with Rohin Shah (Part 1)

The space of AI alignment research is highly dynamic, and…

April 2, 2019/by Ariel Conn

FLI Podcast: Why Ban Lethal Autonomous Weapons?

March 6, 2019/by Lucas Perry

AI Alignment Podcast: AI Alignment through Debate with Geoffrey Irving

February 28, 2019/by Ariel Conn

FLI Podcast (Part 2): Anthrax, Agent Orange, and Yellow Rain: Verification Stories with Matthew Meselson and Max Tegmark

February 21, 2019/by Lucas Perry

AI Alignment Podcast: Human Cognition and the Nature of Intelligence with Joshua Greene

Artificial Intelligence News

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 17, 2019/by Lucas Perry

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

December 17, 2018/by Lucas Perry

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

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

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…

October 23, 2018/by Jolene Creighton

Trump to Pull US Out of Nuclear Treaty

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

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December 17, 2018/by Kirsten Gronlund

Updates From the COP24 Climate Change Meeting

For the first two weeks in December, the parties to the United…

November 28, 2018/by Jolene Creighton

US Government Releases Its Latest Climate Assessment, Demands Immediate Action

October 31, 2018/by Ariel Conn

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

An image of Hurricane Michael making landfall October 11, 2018. Photo courtesy of NASA.

October 16, 2018/by Ariel Conn

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

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.