Announcing the second AI Safety Camp

post by Lachouette · 2018-06-11T18:59:48.794Z · LW · GW · 0 comments

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  What is the AI Safety Camp?
  What’s the structure of the camp?
  What will attendants work on?
  When and where?
  Pricing
  Apply
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What is the AI Safety Camp?

Would you like to work on AI safety or strategy research and are looking for a concrete way to get started? We are organizing this camp for aspiring AI safety and strategy researchers. At the camp, you:

• build connections with others in the field
• build your research portfolio
• receive feedback on your research ideas and help others with theirs
• make concrete progress on open AI safety research questions

Read more about the last research camp here, including a summary of the produced research.

What’s the structure of the camp?

The camp is preceded by 7 weeks of preparation in form of an online study group of 3-5 people, followed by a 10-day intensive camp with the aim of creating and publishing a research paper, extensive blog post, or github repository.

What will attendants work on?

Participants will work in groups on tightly-defined research projects, for example in the following areas:

• Strategy and Policy
• Agent Foundations (decision theory, subsystem alignment, embedded world models, MIRI-style)
• Value learning (IRL, approval-directed agents, wireheading, …)
• Corrigibility / Interruptibility
• Side Effects, Safe Exploration
• Scalable & Informed Oversight
• Robustness (distributional shift, adversarial examples)
• Human Values (including philosophical and psychological approaches)

When and where?

4–14 October 2018, in Prague, Czech Republic.

Pricing

Attendance is free.

Apply

Applications and more information on aisafetycamp.com

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