The Center for Human-Compatible Artificial Intelligence (CHAI) is a research center at
University of California, Berkeley
The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the University of California, it is the state's first land-grant u ...
(UC Berkeley) focusing on advanced
artificial intelligence
Artificial intelligence (AI) is intelligence—perceiving, synthesizing, and inferring information—demonstrated by machine
A machine is a physical system using Power (physics), power to apply Force, forces and control Motion, moveme ...
(AI)
safety methods. CHAI was founded in 2016 by a group of academics led by UC Berkeley computer science professor and AI author
Stuart J. Russell. Russell is known for co-authoring the widely used AI textbook ''
Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach''.
CHAI's faculty membership includes
Bart Selman
Bart Selman is a Dutch-American professor of computer science at Cornell University. He has previously worked at AT&T Bell Laboratories. He is also co-founder and principal investigator of the Center for Human-Compatible Artificial Intelligence ( ...
and
Joseph Halpern from Cornell University,
Pieter Abbeel from UC Berkeley, and
Michael Wellman from the University of Michigan. In 2016, the
Open Philanthropy Project (OpenPhil) recommended a grant of $5,555,550 over five years to support CHAI. CHAI received an additional grant of $200,000 from OpenPhil in 2019.
Research
CHAI's approach to AI safety research focuses on value alignment strategies, particularly
inverse reinforcement learning, in which the AI infers human values from observing human behavior. It has also worked on modeling human-machine interaction in scenarios where intelligent machines have an "off-switch" that they are capable of overriding.
See also
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Existential risk from artificial general intelligence
Existential risk from artificial general intelligence is the hypothesis that substantial progress in artificial general intelligence (AGI) could result in human extinction or some other unrecoverable global catastrophe. It is argued that the hum ...
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Future of Humanity Institute
The Future of Humanity Institute (FHI) is an interdisciplinary research centre at the University of Oxford investigating big-picture questions about humanity and its prospects. It was founded in 2005 as part of the Faculty of Philosophy and th ...
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Future of Life Institute
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Human Compatible''
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Machine Intelligence Research Institute
References
External links
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Artificial intelligence associations
Existential risk from artificial general intelligence
Existential risk organizations
Organizations established in 2016
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