Can the future of AI be safe, ethical and transformative? Nate Soares and Tom Griffiths discuss how insights into human reasoning and careful design can guide us toward a world where advanced intelligence serves humanity rather than threatens it.
| Where: | Science City - Main Stage (Seats 195)  |
| When: | Sun, Mar 15, 11:30 am - 12:25 pm |
| Signing area: | Sales & Signing Area - Science City (following presentation)
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| Genre: | Science / Medicine / Technology |
| Moderator: | Brad Story |
| Sponsor: | Session made possible courtesy of Roche Tissue Diagnostics |
Tom Griffiths is the Henry R. Luce Professor of Information Technology, Consciousness and Culture in the Departments of Psychology and Computer Science at Princeton University. He also directs Princeton's Computational Cognitive Science Lab, a research group focused on understanding the mathematical foundations of human cognition, and the Princeton Laboratory for Artificial Intelligence, a new effort that supports innovative research efforts in AI and related fields....
Nate Soares is the president of Machine Intelligence Research Institute (MIRI). He has been working in the intelligence field for over a decade, after previous experience at Microsoft and Google. Soares is the author of a large body of technical and semi-technical writing on AI alignment, has been interviewed in Vanity Fair and The Financial Times, and has spoken on conference panels alongside many of the AI field’s leaders....
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