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Bart Selman

Position
Professor
Organisation
Cornell University
Biography
Why do you care about AI Existential Safety?

AI capabilities are increasing rapidly. This opens up exciting opportunities to address many of society’s challenges. However, we also need to recognize that we cannot fully understand the future path of AI. So we need to devote research resources to guard against potential existential risks.

Please give one or more examples of research interests relevant to AI existential safety:

My most closely related research interests are in deep RL, particularly concerning concerning challenges of safety and interpretability.

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