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June 18, 2019/by Viktoriya Krakovna

ICLR Safe ML Workshop Report

This year the ICLR conference hosted topic-based workshops for…

June 6, 2019/by Kirsten Gronlund

New Report Calls Out Banks that Make Nuclear Weapons Investments

May 9, 2019/by Kirsten Gronlund

State of AI: Artificial Intelligence, the Military and Increasingly Autonomous Weapons

April 9, 2019/by Kirsten Gronlund

Dr. Matthew Meselson Wins 2019 Future of Life Award

March 29, 2019/by Kirsten Gronlund

Women for the Future

Podcasts

June 28, 2019/by Ariel Conn

FLI Podcast: Is Nuclear Weapons Testing Back on the Horizon? With Jeffrey Lewis and Alex Bell

Nuclear weapons testing is mostly a thing of the past: The…

May 31, 2019/by Ariel Conn

FLI Podcast: Applying AI Safety & Ethics Today with Ashley Llorens & Francesca Rossi

May 23, 2019/by Lucas Perry

AI Alignment Podcast: On Consciousness, Qualia, and Meaning with Mike Johnson and Andrés Gómez Emilsson

April 30, 2019/by Ariel Conn

FLI Podcast: The Unexpected Side Effects of Climate Change With Fran Moore and Nick Obradovich

April 25, 2019/by Lucas Perry

AI Alignment Podcast: An Overview of Technical AI Alignment with Rohin Shah (Part 2)

Artificial Intelligence News

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 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

Biotechnology News

February 28, 2019/by Ariel Conn

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

In this special two-part podcast Ariel Conn is joined by…

February 28, 2019/by Ariel Conn

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

November 30, 2018/by Ariel Conn

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

November 20, 2018/by a guest blogger

Benefits & Risks of Biotechnology

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.