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UC Berkeley — AI Safety Research (2019)

$1.1M
Funder
Coefficient Givingwiki
Recipient
University of California, Berkeley
Program
AI Safety Grantmaking
Date
Dec 2019
Source
coefficientgiving.org↗
Notes

[Navigating Transformative AI] Grant investigator: Daniel Dewey This page was reviewed but not written by the grant investigator. UC Berkeley staff also reviewed this page prior to publication. Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of $1,111,000 over three years to UC Berkeley to support research relevant to potential risks from artificial intelligence and machine learning, led by Jacob Steinhardt. This funding will allow Professor Steinhardt to fund students to work on robustness, value learning, aggregating preferences, and other areas of machine learning. This falls within our focus area of potential risks from advanced artificial intelligence.

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GrantRecipientAmountDate
14-week salary for Aris Richardson, EA BerkeleyUniversity of California, Berkeley$8.6KJul 2022
UC Berkeley’s EA group & new AI Safety group 22-23 funding for food, marketing, & lead student organizer salaryUniversity of California, Berkeley$39KOct 2022
14-week salary for Aris Richardson, EA BerkeleyUniversity of California, Berkeley$8.6KJul 2022
UC Berkeley’s EA group & new AI Safety group 22-23 funding for food, marketing, & lead student organizer salaryUniversity of California, Berkeley$39KOct 2022
Grant to "support a project to develop interactive AI algorithms for alignment that can uncover the causal features in human reward systems, and thereby help AI systems learn underlying human values that generalize to new situations."University of California, Berkeley$800KMay 2022
Grant to "support a project to study how large language models integrated with offline reinforcement learning pose a risk of machine deception and persuasion."University of California, Berkeley$600KJun 2022
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