Given the increasing emergence and advancement of artificial intelligence, AI safety has become an increasingly large cause area in the EA community. For our week 6 event, our speaker David Quarel will be presenting a talk on the current state of AI safety research.

Talk Summary: I will present a quick overview of what state of the art work in AI safety looks like, what techniques we currently have for understanding models, and some conjecture of what things might look like in the future.

Bio: David Quarel is a PhD student at the Australian National University in Universal Artificial Intelligence, a theoretical framework on intelligence by Marcus Hutter. David is based in the UK, and will be working as a Research Assistant at Cambridge University with David Krueger