Speakers | Program | Registration | Organizers
The third Human-aligned AI Summer School will be held in Prague from 4th to 7th August 2022. We will meet for four intensive days of discussions, workshops, and talks covering latest trends in AI alignment research and broader framings of AI alignment research.
The school is focused on teaching and exploring approaches and frameworks, less on presentation of the latest research results. The content of the school is mostly technical – it is assumed the attendees understand current ML approaches such as deep learning, reinforcement learning, and some of the underlying theoretical frameworks.
The intended audience of the school are researchers interested in learning more about the AI
alignment topics, PhD students, researchers working in ML/AI outside academia, and talented
students.
It is also recommended that the participants have a basic general understanding of the AI alignment
problem and technical concepts such as specification gaming, instrumental goals, and
interpretability.
This year we also encourage inter-disciplinary researchers interested in applying their domain
knowledge in AI alignment to attend, e.g. from evolutionary biology, behavioral economics, or
statistical mechanics.
The school consists of lectures and topical series, focused smaller-group workshops and discussions,
expert panels, and opportunities for networking, project brainstorming and informal discussions.
See the previous school for an illustration of our planned
speakers and general program structure (note this year will consist of 40-50% of discussions and
smaller group workshops).
| 18:00 | Informal pre-school welcome party in the CZEA Epistea space |
| 9:30 | Venue opens for breakfast |
| 10:30 — 11:10 | Opening session |
| 11:10 — 11:30 | Coffee break |
| 11:30 — 12:30 | Ondrej Bajgar: AGI epistemics |
| 12:30 — 14:00 | Lunch (catered) |
| 14:00 — 15:00 | Jan Kulveit: Mapping alignment agendas |
| 15:00 — 15:20 | Coffee break |
| 15:20 — 16:50 |
David Kruger: Is AI Alignment the solution to AI x-safety? Technical AI Alignment obstacles and complementary approaches (remotely) |
| 16:50 — 17:00 | Break |
| 17:00 — 18:00 | Breakout session |
| 19:00 | Conference dinner in TowerPark |
| 8:30 | Venue opens for breakfast |
| 9:30 – 10:50 | Stanislav Fořt: Deep Learning as a Natural Science |
| 10:50 – 11:10 | Coffee break |
| 11:10 – 12:30 | Breakout session |
| 12:30 – 14:00 | Lunch (catered) |
| 14:00 – 15:30 | Lightning talks (early career researchers) |
| 15:30 – 16:10 | Extended coffee break (encouraging 1:1s) |
| 16:10 – 17:40 | Rohin Shah: Examples of goal misgeneralization (remotely) |
| 18:30 - 20:00 | Dinners at pre-booked restaurants (optional) |
| 8:30 | Venue opens for breakfast |
| 9:30 – 10:40 | Lewis Hammond: Introduction to Cooperative AI |
| 10:40 – 11:10 | Coffee break |
| 11:10 – 12:30 | Breakout session |
| 12:30 – 14:00 | Lunch (catered) |
| 14:00 – 15:20 | Nora Ammann: Introduction to PIBBSS |
| 15:20 – 15:50 | Coffee break |
| 15:50 – 17:00 | Breakout session |
| 17:00 – 18:00 | Jan Kulveit: Game Theory for AGI Safety |
| 19:00 | Conference dinner at restaurant Oblaca |
| 8:30 | Venue opens for breakfast |
| 9:30 – 10:30 | Lightning talks from participants |
| 10:30 – 10:50 | Coffee break |
| 10:50 – 12:00 | Breakout session |
| 12:00 – 13:00 | Closing session |
| 13:00 | End of conference – lunch (catered) |
The applications are now closed.
The The price of the school is EUR 200 with a discounted price of EUR 80 for students and independent researchers, and includes full catering and all conference events.
We have a limited number of scholarships for participants from disadvantaged backgrounds and in difficult situations, covering the price of the school and subsidizing travel and accommodation costs.
The school will have several smaller-group workshop sessions, consisting of presenting new topics, interactive activities and discussion on narrower or technical topics, offered by both invited speakers and selected participants of the school.
If you are interested in presenting a workshop, please send us a brief description of the workshop content (about half a page) along with the intended format and target audience, noting your expertise within the area. Note that the expectation is not to necessarily present your own work, but rather to provide content and activities that enrich the school for other participants. If we think your workshop is a good fit we will get back to you and discuss the content of the workshop in more detail and help you refine it for the school.
Jan Kulveit, Tomáš Gavenčiak, Daniel Filan
Organized by Effective Altruism Czech Republic and Center for Theoretical Study, Charles University, Prague
📧 Contact us at haaiss@acsresearch.org