The audiobook of The Precipice is on sale at a quarter the normal price for the next two weeks.
audiobooks.co.uk/promotions/pro…

Here's a poster and video summary of recent work at AI Magazine! We found that under certain (very plausible) conditions, we can expect advanced artificial agents to intervene in the provision of rewards, with catastrophic consequences. 1/2

New research from our AI safety team argues that human extinction is a likely outcome of running a sufficiently advanced artificial agent. twitter.com/Michael0515600…

Today, we’re relaunching as a nonprofit. Our mission remains the same: We are building a global research community, dedicated to helping humanity transition to a world with advanced AI. But we’ll also be exploring new ways to expand our impact.

governance.ai/post/the-centr…

Over the past years I have been deeply impressed by @DeepMind, both by its technical achievements and its leadership in the responsible development of AI. I am delighted to share that I have recently joined DeepMind, where I will continue my work on AI governance. 1/3

Recordings and transcripts of our past two webinars are now available: ow.ly/qBQQ50FiAJT

Redesigning AI for Shared Prosperity: An Agenda by Stephanie Bell and Katya Klinova

and

AI and Inequality: Joseph Stiglitz in discussion with Anton Korinek

By how much does community mask-wearing reduce COVID-19 transmission?

A new paper coauthored by FHI researchers explores the relationship between mask-wearing and transmission

Read the full paper here: ow.ly/fVBZ50FgTYU

What are the harms of epistemic fragmentation in online targeted advertising using ML?

Silvia Milano recently coauthored 'Epistemic fragmentation poses a threat to the governance of online targeting' in Nature Machine Intelligence

Read the full paper here: ow.ly/gQFX50FgUTj

Join us in an hour for Katya Klinova and Stephanie Bell from Partnership on AI presenting on 'Redesigning AI for Shared Prosperity'

Rob Seamans will join as discussant and Anton Korinek will moderate

Register: ow.ly/Bg8u50FcsU9

Join us on Monday for Katya Klinova and Stephanie Bell from Partnership on AI presenting on 'Redesigning AI for Shared Prosperity'

Rob Seamans will join as discussant and Anton Korinek will moderate

Mon 21st Jun
1700–1830 BST (0900–1030 PT, 1200–1330 EDT)
Register: ow.ly/Bg8u50FcsU9

#FutureProofReport , a new report by Toby Ord and The Centre for Long-Term Resilience takes a look at how the UK Government can be better prepared for the next extreme risk event - whether a pandemic or otherwise.

longtermresilience.org/futureproof

How can we forecast and mitigate AI’s impacts on inequality?

Join us on Monday for an in-depth conversation between Joseph E. Stiglitz and Anton Korinek about AI and inequality.

Monday 3rd May
1700–1830 BST (0900–1030 PT, 1200–1330 EDT)
Registration: crowdcast.io/e/Stiglitz

FHI won't be running summer fellowships this year, but our colleagues at the Stanford Existential Risks Initiative CISAC have a similar programme, and some FHI researchers may supervise relevant projects.

Applications due April 21st!

tinyurl.com/seri21summer

What are the fundamental causal limits on how much of the universe we can observe or affect?

Toby Ord recently published The Edges of Our Universe.

Paper here: arxiv.org/abs/2104.01191

Why did the US and USSR fail to agree on int'l control of nuclear weapons in 1944-1951?

Waqar Zaidi and Allan Dafoe's recently published International Control of Powerful Technology: Lessons from the Baruch Plan for Nuclear Weapons.

Paper here: ow.ly/9kag50EhU0l

“Understanding the effectiveness of government interventions in Europe’s second wave of COVID-19” collaboration b/w FHI, Imperial College London, OATML_Oxford, University of Copenhagen, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, Cambridge University, The Crick

Paper
medrxiv.org/content/10.110…

Summary of results twitter.com/sorenmind/stat…

Four new published papers from the Causal Incentives Working Group (a collaboration with Oxford, DeepMind and U of Toronto researchers), on incentive concepts, and how they can be applied to AI safety. In AAAI x2, AAMAS, and Synthese.
fhi.ox.ac.uk/causal-incenti…

The full transcript and video from our event with David Autor, Ioana Marinescu, Katya Klinova, & Anton Korinek on the MIT's Work for the Future Task Force results are now available.

fhi.ox.ac.uk/david-autor/