June 2017 Newsletter

Research updates

General updates

readthesequences.com: supporters have put together a web version of Eliezer Yudkowsky’s Rationality: From AI to Zombies.
The Oxford Prioritisation Project publishes a model of MIRI’s work as an existential risk intervention.

News and links

From MIT Technology Review: “Why Google’s CEO Is Excited About Automating Artificial Intelligence.”
A new alignment paper from researchers at Australian National University and DeepMind: “Reinforcement Learning with a Corrupted Reward Channel.”
New from OpenAI: Baselines, a tool for reproducing reinforcement learning algorithms.
The Future of Humanity Institute and Centre for the Future of Intelligence join the Partnership on AI alongside twenty other groups.
New AI safety job postings include research roles at the Future of Humanity Institute and the Center for Human-Compatible AI, as well as a UCLA PULSE fellowship for studying AI’s potential large-scale consequences and appropriate preparations and responses.

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