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SUMMARY:How AI could change the foundational assumptions of international 
 relations - Dr Stuart Armstrong (University of Oxford)
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20191029T130000Z
DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20191029T140000Z
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DESCRIPTION:"Realism" in international relations is constructed from past 
 experience of what is likely and what is possible in the world. AIs may ch
 ange this sense of the possible tremendously - shifting both the ways that
  countries can compete and undermine each other\, and the deals that might
  become possible. On top of that\, AI itself will become a strategic asset
  - and target - of great value.\nThis talk will argue for why AI could bec
 ome so powerful\, sketch the dangers intrinsic to AI and to misuse of AI b
 y bad actors\, and talk about how the world could be transformed by these 
 technologies.\nStuart Armstrong’s research at the Future of Humanity Ins
 titute centers on the safety and possibilities of Artificial Intelligence 
 (AI)\, how to define the potential goals of AI and map humanity’s partia
 lly defined values into it\, and the long term potential for intelligent l
 ife 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 t
 heir designs. His collaboration with DeepMind on “Interruptibility” ha
 s been mentioned in over 100 media articles.\n\nStuart Armstrong’s past 
 research interests include comparing existential risks in general\, includ
 ing their probability and their interactions\, anthropic probability (how 
 the fact that we exist affects our probability estimates around that key f
 act)\, decision theories that are stable under self-reflection and anthrop
 ic considerations\, negotiation theory and how to deal with uncertainty ab
 out your own preferences\, computational biochemistry\, fast ligand screen
 ing\, parabolic geometry\, and his Oxford D. Phil. was on the holonomy of 
 projective and conformal Cartan geometries.\n\nA sandwich lunch will be se
 rved at 12.45\nSpeakers:\nDr Stuart Armstrong (University of Oxford)
LOCATION:Manor Road Building (Seminar Room G)\, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
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URL:https://talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/3a0bdf74-4e77-4b35-9950-b29e832d9904/
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