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ghadfield.bsky.social
Economist and legal scholar turned AI researcher focused on AI alignment and governance. Prof of government and policy and computer science at Johns Hopkins where I run the Normativity Lab. Recruiting CS postdocs and PhD students. gillianhadfield.org
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Everyone, including those who think we're building powerful AI to improve lives for everyone, should take seriously how poorly our current economic indicators (unemployment, earnings, inflation) capture the well-being of low- and moderate-income folks. www.politico.com/news/magazin...

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I was at this meeting Mon, and the quality & seriousness of discussion made it a highlight. But Fu Ying is right that forging the cooperation needed, even limited to the extreme risks that threaten everyone, is becoming ever harder. We must keep trying. www.scmp.com/news/china/d...

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Do we think Musk is using treasury payments data to train, fine tune or do inference on AI models? @caseynewton.bsky.social

submitted 24 days ago • 1 comment

Video from our tutorial @NeurIPSConf 2024 is up! @dhadfieldmenell @jzl86 @rstriv and I explore how frameworks from economics, institutional and political theory, and biological and cultural evolution can advance approaches to AI alignment neurips.cc/virtual/2024...

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“We haven’t created the infrastructure to integrate [agents] into all the rules and structures we have to make sure our markets behave well,” says CS faculty @ghadfield.bsky.social, an expert in #AI governance.

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The most immediate need for #AISafety is more visibility by government into frontier models—we can’t determine if or how to regulate without it. The registration requirement Tino Cuéllar and Tim O’Reilly and I proposed last year is aimed at this goal. This white paper develops the proposal in depth

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As someone who lost her house in the 1991 Oakland Hills fire-if you want to help friends and neighbors, focus on logistical help-figuring out housing and child care, insurance claims, rebuilding processes (eventually), job claims—forms forms forms and process. And child care while they do above!

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Grad students, postdocs, early career researchers in CS, economics and more—consider applying to this fantastic summer school to connect with Cooperative AI www.cooperativeai.com/summer-schoo...

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A great wide-ranging conversation on AI ethics and safety with me, @mdredze.bsky.social @ruchowdh.bsky.social and of course @karaswisher.bsky.social. I don’t think putting ethics and safety together is a contradiction in terms! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/o...

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Despite media representations to the contrary, "women remain underrepresented among faculty in nearly all academic fields...A large-scale survey of the same faculty indicates that the reasons faculty leave are gendered, even for institutions, fields, and career ages in which retention rates are not"

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I’m hiring! Postdocs to work on alignment, normative reasoning and infrastructure; strong admin manager to strategize for and coordinate research and policy work. Strategic comms position closed but could reopen. Policy researcher opening soon. See gillianhadfield.org

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Podcast in the wild. Gillian Hadfield, Mark Drezde, Rumman Chowdhury talking #AIsafety with Kara Swisher at Hopkins Bloomberg Center in DC. #jhu. Good conversation that spanned variety of issues and perspectives. Well done.

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General audience perspective on where agentic AI is heading with input from me, Bengio, Russell, Gabriel and Savarese www.scientificamerican.com/article/what...

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Didn’t know I had a life goal of being on a list with Ayesha Curry and Joni Mitchell but guess I did! streetsoftoronto.com/these-are-to...

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Today!

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My tutorial with @dhadfieldmenell.bsky.social @jzleibo.bsky.social and Rakshit Trivedi on "Cross-disciplinary insights for alignment in humans and machines" is Tuesday at 1:30 Pacific; scroll down to bottom of this long list of other JHU papers and workshops!

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My tutorial with @dhadfieldmenell.bsky.social @jzleibo.bsky.social and Rakshit Trivedi on "Cross-disciplinary insights for alignment in humans and machines" is Tuesday at 1:30 Pacific; scroll down to bottom of this long list of other JHU papers and workshops!

submitted 85 days ago • 0 comments

OMG! @ghadfield.bsky.social is following me. She gave my favorite presentation at the FAR AI Vienna Alignment panel on current issues in AI safety. youtu.be/lxd8KC6T1jE?...

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A result from economics with implications for the potential impact of AI tools on decision making (ie economies)—which way does it go? Complexity aversion drives AI aversion due to black boxes? Or mitigates complexity aversion with AI providing tailored explanation and analysis as decision support?

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The AI transformation underway makes it critical that we get creative about how we do law and regulation better. In this podcast I talk about how we can do this podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...

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Spread the word! Tom Mitchell and I will discuss the report of the National Academies on AI and the Future of Work on Thursday at 1:30 ET and 10:30 PT. Please join us! www.nationalacademies.org/event/44014_...

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Kicking off my Bluesky account with this piece from a few weeks back in @fortune.com on AI agents

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If you’ll be at #neurips this year, come to our tutorial on cross-disciplinary insights for AI alignment neurips.cc/virtual/2024...

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