I am excited to announce that we are now offering fellowships at our new ASI safety org, AIXI Labs! Apply here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdpKSZKcMUZCkMaBncmbDSSdVcHKodDmdALUTOOheGF_NMHuQ/viewform?usp=publish-editor Focus. If you have been closely engaged with this community (or AIT, AIXI, and/or ML), you should consider applying! There is a good chance we can find a research match, since we are…

Professor Francesca Zaffora Blando will present her work on weak merging of opinions at the regular research meeting tomorrow, Monday April 27th, at 3 pm EDT. Francesca Zaffora Blando is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Carnegie Mellon University specializing in logic, formal epistemology, and the philosophy of science – particularly the…

Sven Neth will discuss his paper “Against Optimization” at an extra research meeting tomorrow, April 13th at 3 pm EDT, using the regular zoom link. This will be our second consecutive talk on AI safety (related topics)! Indeed, Sven’s paper was inspired by the limitations of “Consequences of Misaligned AI” by Zhuang and Hadfield-Menell, and…

We are excited to announce the Third Symposium on Algorithmic Information Theory and Machine Learning this July 27 – 29 at the University of Oxford! See the details here: https://sites.google.com/site/boumedienehamzi/third-symposium-on-machine-learning-and-algorithmic-information-theory The third iteration of the symposium is particularly focused on applications of AIT to the theory and practice of AI safety. AIXI has long been…

Aram Ebtekar returns to give his second talk at the regular UAI research meetings this Monday (3 pm EDT on April 6th at the regular zoom link), this time on an exciting new AI safety protocol analyzed rigorously in the AIXI setting. Title: Golden Handcuffs make safer AI agents Abstract: Reinforcement learners often find novel…

Yegon Kim will present tomorrow, Monday March 23rd at 3 pm EDT on a model-free universal artificial intelligence: https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.23242 We will use the regular zoom link. Bio: Yegon Kim is a PhD student researching AI at KAIST. Yegon also has an interesting blog/personal website here: https://yegonkim.github.io/ Abstract: In general reinforcement learning, all established optimal agents,…

Dr. Tom F. Sterkenburg will present a rigorous critique of Solomonoff induction at the UAI regular research meeting on Monday, March 9th, at 1:15 pm EST rather than the usual 3 pm EST. We will use the usual zoom link. Sterkenburg is Emmy Noether junior group leader at the Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy (MCMP,…

Marta Kryven will present on approximate Bayesian inference for problem-solving domains at the UAI research meeting tomorrow, Monday February 23rd at 3 pm EST. We will use the regular zoom link. Abstract: Bayesian Inference and Optimal Experiment Design provide a general case optimal theoretical framework for how to build world models and interpret evidence. However,…