Everyone knows who to look out for in the creation of AI, who should we be paying attention to for the solving of the control problem? I know of Elizier, Stewart Russel and the team mentioned above but is there anyone else you would recommend is worth following?
Over the past couple of years I’ve been excited to see the growth of the community of researchers working on technical problems related to AI alignment.
Here a quick and non-exhaustive list of people (and associated organizations) that I’m following (besides MIRI research staff and associates) in no particular order:
* Stuart Russell and the new Center for Human-Compatible AI.
* FHI’s growing technical AI safety team, which includes:
* Stuart Armstrong, who is also a research associate at MIRI and co-author of Safely Interruptible Agents with Laurent Orseau of DeepMind);
* Eric Drexler;
* Owain Evans; and
* Jan Leike, who recently collaborated with MIRI on the paper A formal solution to the grain of truth problem.
* The authors of the Concrete Problems in AI Safety paper:
* Dario Amodei, who is now at OpenAI, and Chris Olah and Dan Mané at Google Brain;
* Jacob Steinhardt at Stanford;
* Paul Christiano, who is a long-time MIRI collaborator currently at OpenAI (see also his writing at medium.com/ai-control); and
* John Schulman, also at OpenAI.
* DeepMind’s AI safety team, led by Laurent Orseau.
* Various other individual academics; for a sampling see speakers at our Colloquium Series on Robust and Beneficial AI and grant recipients from the Future of Life Institute.
Everyone knows who to look out for in the creation of AI, who should we be paying attention to for the solving of the control problem? I know of Elizier, Stewart Russel and the team mentioned above but is there anyone else you would recommend is worth following?