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David Cook on the VV&A process

Dr. David A. Cook is Associate Professor of Computer Science at Stephen F. Austin State University, where he teaches Software Engineering, Modeling and Simulation, and Enterprise Security. Prior to this, he was Senior Research Scientist and Principal Member of the...

Robert Constable on correct-by-construction programming

Robert L. Constable heads the Nuprl research group in automated reasoning and software verification, and joined the Cornell faculty in 1968. He has supervised over forty PhD students in computer science, including the very first graduate of the CS department....

Armando Tacchella on Safety in Future AI Systems

Armando Tacchella is Associate Professor of Information Systems at the Faculty of Engineering, at the University of Genoa. He obtained his Ph.D in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Genoa in 2001 and his “Laurea” (M.Sc equivalent) in...

Anders Sandberg on Space Colonization

Anders Sandberg works at the Future of Humanity Institute, a part of the Oxford Martin School and the Oxford University philosophy faculty. Anders’ research at the FHI centres on societal and ethical issues surrounding human enhancement, estimating the capabilities and...

Nik Weaver on Paradoxes of Rational Agency

Nik Weaver is a professor of mathematics at Washington University in St. Louis. He did his graduate work at Harvard and Berkeley and received his Ph.D. in 1994. His main interests are functional analysis, quantization, and the foundations of mathematics....

Conversation with Holden Karnofsky about Future-Oriented Philanthropy

Recently, Eliezer and I had an email conversation with Holden Karnofsky to discuss future-oriented philanthropy, including MIRI. The participants were: Eliezer Yudkowsky (research fellow at MIRI) Luke Muehlhauser (executive director at MIRI) Holden Karnofsky (co-CEO at GiveWell) We then edited...