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Research & Updates
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September 2023
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Future of Life Institute Podcast: Tom Davidson on How Quickly AI Could Automate the Economy
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September 08, 2023
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Potential Risks from Advanced AI
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August 2023
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Freakonomics Podcast: New Technologies Always Scare Us. Is A.I. Any Different?
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August 30, 2023
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Potential Risks from Advanced AI
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August 2023
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80,000 Hours Podcast: Holden Karnofsky on how AIs might take over even if they’re no smarter than humans, and his four-part playbook for AI risk
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August 01, 2023
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Potential Risks from Advanced AI
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June 2023
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What a compute-centric framework says about takeoff speeds
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June 27, 2023
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Potential Risks from Advanced AI
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June 2023
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Lunar Society Podcast: Carl Shulman – Intelligence Explosion, Primate Evolution, Robot Doublings, & Alignment
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June 14, 2023
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Potential Risks from Advanced AI
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May 2023
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80,000 Hours Podcast: Ajeya Cotra on accidentally teaching AI models to deceive us
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May 12, 2023
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Potential Risks from Advanced AI
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May 2023
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80,000 Hours Podcast: Tom Davidson on how quickly AI could transform the world
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May 05, 2023
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Potential Risks from Advanced AI
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April 2023
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12 tentative ideas for US AI policy
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April 17, 2023
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Potential Risks from Advanced AI
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March 2023
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Vox: Can society adjust at the speed of artificial intelligence?
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March 21, 2023
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Potential Risks from Advanced AI
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March 2023
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Vox: The case for slowing down AI
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March 21, 2023
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Potential Risks from Advanced AI
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March 2023
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Announcing the Open Philanthropy AI Worldviews Contest
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March 10, 2023
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Potential Risks from Advanced AI
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January 2023
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Lunar Society Podcast: Holden Karnofsky – Transformative AI & Most Important Century
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January 03, 2023
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Global Catastrophic Risks
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September 2021
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EE Times: Building a Framework to Trust AI
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September 24, 2021
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
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June 2021
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Could Advanced AI Drive Explosive Economic Growth?
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June 25, 2021
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Potential Risks from Advanced AI
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June 2021
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Report on Whether AI Could Drive Explosive Economic Growth
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June 17, 2021
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Potential Risks from Advanced AI
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March 2021
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Semi-informative priors over AI timelines
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March 25, 2021
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Potential Risks from Advanced AI
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March 2021
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Report on Semi-informative Priors
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March 25, 2021
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Potential Risks from Advanced AI
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December 2020
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Our AI governance grantmaking so far
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December 08, 2020
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Potential Risks from Advanced AI
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October 2020
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Vox: The case for taking AI seriously as a threat to humanity
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October 15, 2020
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Potential Risks from Advanced AI
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September 2020
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How Much Computational Power Does It Take to Match the Human Brain?
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September 11, 2020
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
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September 2020
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New Report on How Much Computational Power It Takes to Match the Human Brain
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September 08, 2020
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
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June 2020
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Dr. Kate Storrs, Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow, Justus Liebig University
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June 11, 2020
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Potential Risks from Advanced AI
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June 2020
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Professor Eve Marder, University Professor and Victor and Gwendolyn Beinfield Professor of Neuroscience, Brandeis University
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June 01, 2020
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Potential Risks from Advanced AI
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March 2020
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Dr. Jess Riedel, Senior Research Scientist (Physics), NTT Research
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March 01, 2020
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Potential Risks from Advanced AI
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March 2020
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Dr. Paul Christiano, Researcher, OpenAI
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March 01, 2020
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Potential Risks from Advanced AI
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January 2020
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Professor David Wolpert, Resident Faculty at the Santa Fe Institute
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January 24, 2020
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Potential Risks from Advanced AI
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January 2020
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Professor E.J. Chichilnisky, John R. Adler Professor of Neurosurgery and Professor of Ophthalmology at Stanford University
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January 23, 2020
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
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January 2020
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Professor Jared Kaplan, Professor of Physics, Johns Hopkins University
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January 23, 2020
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Potential Risks from Advanced AI
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January 2020
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Dr. Michael Frank, Senior Technical Staff Member, Sandia National Laboratory
Date
January 22, 2020
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Potential Risks from Advanced AI
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January 2020
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Professor Stephen Baccus, Professor of Neurobiology, Stanford University
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January 22, 2020
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
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September 2019
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Professor Markus Meister, Anne P. and Benjamin F. Biaggini Professor of Biological Sciences at the California Institute of Technology
Date
September 24, 2019
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
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September 2019
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Professor Barak Pearlmutter, Professor of Computer Science, Maynooth University
Date
September 23, 2019
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Potential Risks from Advanced AI
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September 2019
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Professor Blake Richards, Assistant Professor in the Montreal Neurological Institute and the School of Computer Science at McGill University
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September 20, 2019
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Potential Risks from Advanced AI
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September 2019
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Professor Dong Song, Research Associate Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Southern California
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September 19, 2019
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Potential Risks from Advanced AI
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September 2019
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Professor Eric Jonas, Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the University of Chicago
Date
September 17, 2019
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Potential Risks from Advanced AI
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September 2019
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Professor Erik De Schutter, Professor, Computational Neuroscience, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology
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September 17, 2019
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
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September 2019
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Professor Anthony Zador, Alle Davis and Maxine Harrison Professor of Neurosciences, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
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September 12, 2019
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Potential Risks from Advanced AI
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September 2019
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Professor Konrad Kording, Penn Integrated Knowledge Professor, University of Pennsylvania
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September 11, 2019
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Potential Risks from Advanced AI
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September 2019
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Professor Shaul Druckmann, Assistant Professor of Neurobiology and of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University
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September 05, 2019
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
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September 2019
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Professor Chris Eliasmith, Professor of Philosophy and Systems Design Engineering, Canada Research Chair in Theoretical Neuroscience, and Director of the Centre for Theoretical Neuroscience at the University of Waterloo
Date
September 05, 2019
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
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August 2019
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Professor Won Mok Shim, Associate Professor at the Centre for Neuroscience Imaging Research, Sungkyunkwan University
Date
August 07, 2019
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
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August 2019
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Professor Rosa Cao, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute, Stanford University
Date
August 07, 2019
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
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February 2019
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The Washington Post: Georgetown launches think tank on security and emerging technology
Date
February 28, 2019
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Potential Risks from Advanced AI
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February 2019
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Supporting a New Technology Security Policy Think Tank
Date
February 28, 2019
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
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January 2019
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Dr. Adam Marblestone, Research Scientist, Google DeepMind
Date
January 01, 2019
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
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January 2019
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Dr. Stephen Larson, CEO of MetaCell and Co-founder of OpenWorm
Date
January 01, 2019
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
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October 2017
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A Software Agent Illustrating Some Features of an Illusionist Account of Consciousness
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October 01, 2017
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
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April 2017
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April 2017 Update on Grant to the Future of Life Institute for Artificial Intelligence RFP
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April 01, 2017
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
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June 2016
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Concrete Problems in AI Safety
Date
June 22, 2016
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
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May 2016