CHAI Team — Center for Human-Compatible AI
webThe CHAI team page lists researchers at UC Berkeley's Center for Human-Compatible AI, a leading academic institution focused on AI alignment and safety, founded. Understanding who is working on AI safety and their research focus is useful for navigating the field.
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This page catalogs the faculty, researchers, and affiliates of the Center for Human-Compatible AI (CHAI) at UC Berkeley. CHAI is one of the most prominent academic centers dedicated to ensuring AI systems are safe, beneficial, and aligned with human values. The team includes leading figures such as, Pieter Abbeel, and Anca Dragan, spanning computer science, robotics, and cognitive science.
Key Points
- •CHAI is directed by, co-author of the standard AI textbook, whose research focuses on long-term AI safety and autonomous weapons risks.
- •Pieter Abbeel contributes expertise in deep reinforcement learning, imitation learning, and AI safety applied to robotics.
- •Anca Dragan leads the InterACT Lab, focusing on human-robot interaction algorithms and value-aligned robot behavior.
- •The team spans multiple disciplines including computer science, robotics, psychology, and cognitive science.
- •CHAI represents a major institutional hub for technical AI alignment research in academia.
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Faculty
Stuart Russell
Professor of EECS at UC Berkeley
Director of Kavli Center for Ethics, Science, and the Public
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Stuart Russell
Professor of EECS at UC Berkeley
Director of Kavli Center for Ethics, Science, and the Public
Stuart Russell received his B.A. with first-class honours in physics from Oxford University in 1982 and his Ph.D. in computer science from Stanford in 1986. He then joined the faculty of the University of California at Berkeley, where he is a Professor (and formerly Chair) of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences and holder of the Smith-Zadeh Chair in Engineering. He is a Fellow of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence, the Association for Computing Machinery , and the American Association for the Advancement of Science . His book Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach (with Peter Norvig) is the standard text in AI; it has been translated into 13 languages and is used in over 1300 universities in 118 countries. His research covers a wide range of topics in artificial intelligence including machine learning, probabilistic reasoning, knowledge representation, planning, real-time decision making, multitarget tracking, computer vision, computational physiology, and philosophical foundations. His current concerns include the threat of autonomous weapons and the long-term future of artificial intelligence and its relation to humanity. In 2022, he was selected to become the inaugural director of the newly created Kavli Center for Ethics, Science, and the Public.
You can read more about Prof. Russell’s work and accomplishments at his website .
Pieter Abbeel
Professor of EECS at UC Berkeley
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Pieter Abbeel
Professor of EECS at UC Berkeley
Pieter Abbeel has been a Professor at UC Berkeley ( EECS , BAIR ) since 2008 and was a Research Scientist at OpenAI during 2016-2017. Pieter has developed apprenticeship learning algorithms that have enabled advanced helicopter aerobatics , including maneuvers such as tic-tocs, chaos and auto-rotation, which only exceptional human pilots can perform. His group has enabled the first end-to-end completion of reliably picking up a crumpled laundry article and folding it and has pioneered deep reinforcement learning for robotics, including learning locomotion and visuomotor skills. His current research focuses on robotics and machine learning with particular focus on deep reinforcement learning, deep imitation learning, deep unsupervised learning, meta-learning, learning-to-learn, and AI safety.
You can read more about Prof. Abbeel’s work and accomplishments at his website .
Anca Dragan
Assistant Professor of EECS at UC Berkeley
Founder, InterACT Lab
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Anca Dragan
Assistant Professor of EECS at UC Berkeley
Founder, InterACT Lab
Anca Dragan got her B.Sc. in Computer Science from Jacobs Univ
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