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The US AI Safety Institute, a branch of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), has unveiled its top brass. Paul Christiano, an ex-OpenAI boffin who has gone on record as saying that there is a 50 per cent chance AI will wipe out humanity, is taking responsibility for US AI safety.
While he does not make doom-and-gloom quotes, Christiano is famed for his work on a nifty AI safety trick called reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF).
The US AI Safety Institute, a branch of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), has unveiled its top brass. Paul Christiano, an ex-OpenAI boffin who has gone on record as saying that there is a 50 per cent chance AI will wipe out humanity, is taking responsibility for US AI safety.
While he does not make doom-and-gloom quotes, Christiano is famed for his work on a nifty AI safety trick called reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF).
