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AI Existential Safety Community

We are building a community of AI researchers who want AI to be safe, ethical, and beneficial.

On this page you'll find a growing group of AI researchers keen to ensure that AI remains safe and beneficial, even if it eventually supercedes human ability on essentially all tasks.

Faculty members

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Alessandro Abate

Professor
University of Oxford

Anca Dragan

Associate Professor
UC Berkeley

Anqi Liu

Assistant Professor
Johns Hopkins University

Arnob Ghosh

Assistant Professor
NJIT

Aysajan Eziz

Western University

Bart Selman

Professor
Cornell University

Brad Knox

Research Associate Professor
University of Texas at Austin

Clark Barrett

Professor (Research)
Stanford University

David Krueger

Assistant Professor
University of Cambridge

Dylan Hadfield-Menell

Assistant Professor
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Elad Hazan

Professor
Princeton University

Federico Faroldi

Professor of Ethics Law and AI
University of Pavia

AI Researchers

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Abeer Sharma

University of Hong Kong

Adrià Garriga Alonso

FAR AI

Aidan Kierans

University of Connecticut

Aishwarya Gurung

University of Bath

Alan Chan

Mila, Université de Montréal

Alex Chan

University of Cambridge

Alex Turner

Google DeepMind

Alex Walsh

DCAF - Geneva Centre

Allan Suresh

National Institute of Technology Karnataka

Amir-Hossein Karimi

University of Waterloo

Andy Zou

CMU

Aneri Muni

Mila, University of Montreal

Posts from the community

If you are a member of our community and wish to submit a guest post, please contact us.
Here are some guest posts from members of our AI Existential Safety Community on the topics of their work:

Can AI agents learn to be good?

AI agents are different from AI assistants because they can initiate actions independently. Here we discuss the safety concerns involved with AI agents and what we are doing to mitigate them.
29 August, 2024

How to join

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Vitalik Buterin Fellowships

If you're considering applying for the Vitalik Buterin postdoctoral fellowships or PhD fellowships, please use this page as a resource for finding a faculty mentor. All awarded fellows receive automatic community membership.

AI Professors

If you're a professor interested in free funding for grad students or postdocs working on AI existential safety, you can apply for community membership here.

AI Researchers

If you're a researcher working on AI existential safety, you're also welcome to apply for membership here, to showcase your research areas, apply for travel support, and get invited to our workshops and networking events.

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