Dec 26, 2017
We have a guest on the show today! His name is Stuart Armstrong,
and he works at the Future of Humanity Institute that we’ve
mentioned several times over the course of the TEOTWAWKI specials
who are looking at big-picture existential risks. Stuart
Armstrong’s research at the Future of Humanity Institute centers on
the safety and possibilities of Artificial Intelligence (AI), how
to define the potential goals of AI and map humanity’s partially
defined values into it, and the long term potential for intelligent
life across the reachable universe. He has been working with people
at FHI and other organizations, such as DeepMind, to formalize AI
desiderata in general models so that AI designers can include these
safety methods in their designs.