Very excited about this new opportunity as inaugural Director of the Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society @UofT. Looking forward to working with folks in AI and across social sciences and humanities. tinyurl.com/y3pf594s
Gillian Hadfield
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Gillian Hadfield
@ghadfield
AI policy and alignment; integrating law, economics & computer science to build normatively competent AI that knows how to play well with humans
- I’m super excited to say I’ll be joining the faculties of the brand new DC-based School of Government and Policy and School of Engineering (CS) at Johns Hopkins starting July 1, 2024. An amazing opportunity to amplify my work on AI policy and alignment bit.ly/4aLxFEQ /1
- Happy to share that I won the Mundell Medal for Legal Writing (writing on legal regulation & reform including Rules for a Flat World) along with David Tanovich (writing on race & criminal justice including The Colour of Justice) attorneygeneral.jus.gov.on.ca/english/mundel… @UTLaw @UofT @WindsorLaw
- Very sad to hear about the sudden loss of Peter Eckersley--fitting that this was his last tweet. A beautiful mind, committed to deep original thought about AI. A rare person in AI safety who engaged deeply on economic theory and even parenting principlesThe probability distribution of all art nouveau images!
arxiv.orgTheories of Parenting and their Application to Artificial IntelligenceAs machine learning (ML) systems have advanced, they have acquired more power over humans' lives, and questions about what values are embedded in them have become more complex and fraught. It is... - Honored to have been selected as a Schmidt Futures AI2050 Senior Fellow -- all working on the hard problems of AI. I'll be devoting my fellowship to the challenge of how to build normative infrastructure for AI alignment. [email protected] schmidtfutures.com/second-cohort-…
- The legal world lost a giant yesterday: Deborah Rhode, the woman who did more than any of us to address the A2J crisis—her work has been central to this effort for decades. A treasured coauthor, activist, and friend.
- Very excited and honored by this appointment.📣 Announcement: SRI Director @ghadfield has been named a Canada CIFAR AI Chair. A #UofT professor at @UTLaw and @rotmanschool, Hadfield is the first @VectorInst-affiliated social scientist to be named to the @CIFAR_News program. Learn more: bit.ly/3gCnb4m
- I don't know if we can or will build massively capable autonomous AI with long-term planning abilities. But I do know this: whether such AI gets built and deployed should be decided by us through governments, not markets. We make the case
- Calling all social scientists, humanists, and AI researchers working on the social and ethical dimensions of AI: 3rd AI Ethics and Society Conference will be co-located with AAAI in New York Feb 7-8 2020. Call for papers is up; submission deadline Nov 4. aies-conference.com
- Glad to finally have this paper with @jackclarkSF up--presenting our take on the landscape of AI governance, the critical democratic and technical deficits in current efforts, and our proposal for regulatory technologies and regulatory markets to respond
- It’s really time to admit that we have allowed tremendously complex legal processes to develop that exploit the fact that the vast majority of people cannot manage tremendously complex legal processesThe fiction behind plea bargains is that the innocent will stand fast. Case reviews and psychology experiments show they often do not
00:00 - Save the dates! AI Ethics and Society 2021 Conference will be held virtually May 19-20-21. Submission deadline January 15, 2021. We invite submissions across AI, social science and humanities. Join the work to build safe and beneficial AI.
- Read our white paper on why self-regulation won't be enough to regulate frontier AI models, why governments need to act, and what they can do
- Utah S. Ct. is about to be the leader in North America for #A2J--they've endorsed the most progressive plan I've seen for regulation of legal services--on track to eliminate access-killing rules against fee-sharing, entity practice, and innovative business models. See here:
