Allison Duettmann: AI Philosophy @SXSW

Foresight Institute

This workshop was held in March 2018 at SXSW in Austin and is divided into three parts:

Part 1 starts with an overview of the main problems in the four main focus areas of AI Safety:
1) Ethics
2) Technical Alignment
3) Cybersecurity
4) Social Coordination

Part 2 gives an overview of the state-of-the-art research in the four focus areas before allowing participants to explore one of the focus areas in depth.

Part 3 introduces an alternative to the traditional paradigm in AI safety and it’s approach to solving the four focus areas in AI safety. The novel approach is based on the paper Nano, Cyber, AGI Risk: Decentralized Approaches To Reducing Risks, co-authored by Mark Miller, Christine Peterson, and Allison Duettmann: https://research.google.com/pubs/pub46290.html

All concepts discussed in the workshop can be found at Existentialhope.com – an index for important work for positive futures.

Allison Duettmann is a researcher at Foresight Institute – foresight.org

She conducts research and coordinates the technical programs at Foresight Institute, a think tank for technologies of fundamental importance for the future of humanity. Her research focus is on the reduction of existential risks, especially from AI safety. At Existentialhope.com she keeps an index of readings, podcasts, organizations, and people that inspire an optimistic long-term vision for humanity. The index is collaborative and for everyone who wants to improve the world but doesn’t know where to start. Allison lectures and moderates panels on existential risks & existential hope, AI safety, longevity, blockchains, ethics in technology, and more. Prior to Foresight she hosted and planned TEDx, panels, workshops, debates, and conferences for governments, companies, think tanks, NGOs and the public in Germany, France, Colombia, the UK, and the US. Allison holds a Summa Cum Laude MS in Philosophy & Public Policy from the London School of Economics, where she developed a moral framework for Artificial General Intelligence that relies on natural language processing.

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