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Carnegie Mellon University — Research on Adversarial Examples

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  • Focus Area: Potential Risks from Advanced AI
  • Organization Name: Carnegie Mellon University
  • Amount: $343,235

  • Award Date: July 2022

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    Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of $343,235 over three years to Carnegie Mellon University to support research led by Professor Aditi Raghunathan on adversarial examples (inputs optimized to cause machine learning models to make mistakes).

    This follows our August 2021 support for Professor Raghunathan’s research, and falls within our focus area of potential risks from advanced artificial intelligence.

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