Jacy Reese Anthis

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Speaker Biography

Jacy Reese Anthis is a sociologist, statistician, and co-founder of the Sentience Institute, an interdisciplinary think tank researching long-term social and technological change. His 2018 book, The End of Animal Farming, analyzes the emergence of food technologies such as cell-cultured meat. Anthis’ current projects focus on the technical development and strategic management of artificial intelligence. He is currently a PhD Fellow at The University of Chicago. His research has been featured in The Guardian, Vox, Forbes, and other global media outlets, and he has presented at conferences and seminars in over 20 countries.

 

Talk Abstract

 

An increasingly salient concern among computer scientists is “AI safety”, the challenge of ensuring AI systems are safe and beneficial as they leap ahead in power and opacity. AI safety research teams focused on formal models and software engineering are proliferating at institutions such as OpenAI, DeepMind, and the University of California, Berkeley, as are research teams focused on philosophy and governance, such as at the Center for Security and Emerging Technology in the U.S. and the Center for Long-Term Resilience in the U.K. In this talk, I will present an overview of this burgeoning field, then discuss how data science can make substantial contributions. I will highlight three promising research directions: (i) large-scale experiments and surveys of human deliberation and human-AI interaction, (ii) building and analyzing large annotated datasets for training interpretable, trustworthy deep neural networks, (iii) and modeling trends towards transformative AI such as “scaling law” forecasting and an ongoing project that uses computational text analysis to identify and clarify the history of human values and understandings of AI over time.

 

 

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