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."

$800K

Funder

FTX Future Fund wiki

Recipient

University of California, Berkeley

Program

FTX Future Fund General Grants

Date

May 2022

Data source

FTX Future Fund

Source

web.archive.org↗

Notes

[AI safety] 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."

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