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Useful background reference for understanding CHAI's organizational structure, research agenda, and key personnel; relevant to anyone studying the AI safety research landscape and major institutional players.
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Wikipedia overview of CHAI, a UC Berkeley research center founded by Stuart Russell focused on ensuring AI systems are beneficial and aligned with human values. The center conducts research on value alignment, cooperative AI, and the technical and philosophical challenges of building AI that understands and respects human preferences.
Key Points
- •CHAI was founded in 2016 at UC Berkeley by Stuart Russell, author of the influential AI textbook and proponent of the 'assistance game' framework for alignment.
- •The center's core mission is to develop AI systems that are provably beneficial to humans by learning and respecting human preferences and values.
- •CHAI pursues both technical research (reward learning, inverse reinforcement learning) and policy/governance work on AI safety.
- •Notable researchers affiliated with CHAI include Pieter Abbeel, Anca Dragan, and others working on value alignment and human-robot interaction.
- •CHAI is one of the major academic institutions dedicated to long-term AI safety research, distinct from industry labs.
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US AI safety research center
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| Formation | 2016; 10 years ago (2016) |
| Headquarters | [Berkeley, California](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley,_California "Berkeley, California") |
| Director | [Stuart J. Russell](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuart_J._Russell "Stuart J. Russell") |
| Executive director | Mark Nitzberg |
| Parent organization | [University of California, Berkeley](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_California,_Berkeley "University of California, Berkeley") |
| Website | [humancompatible.ai](https://humancompatible.ai/) |
Center for Human-Compatible Artificial Intelligence
The **Center for Human-Compatible Artificial Intelligence** ( **CHAI**) is a research center at the [University of California, Berkeley](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_California,_Berkeley "University of California, Berkeley") focusing on advanced [artificial intelligence](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_intelligence "Artificial intelligence") (AI) [safety methods](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_control_problem "AI control problem"). The center was founded in 2016 by a group of academics led by [Berkeley](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UC_Berkeley "UC Berkeley") computer science professor and AI expert [Stuart J. Russell](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuart_J._Russell "Stuart J. Russell").[\[1\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_for_Human-Compatible_Artificial_Intelligence#cite_note-1)[\[2\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_for_Human-Compatible_Artificial_Intelligence#cite_note-2) Russell is known for co-authoring the widely used AI textbook _[Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_Intelligence:_A_Modern_Approach "Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach")_.
CHAI's faculty membership includes [Russell](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuart_J._Russell "Stuart J. Russell"), [Pieter Abbeel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pieter_Abbeel "Pieter Abbeel") and Anca Dragan from [Berkeley](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UC_Berkeley "UC Berkeley"), [Bart Selman](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bart_Selman "Bart Selman") and [Joseph Halpern](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Halpern "Joseph Halpern") from [Cornell](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornell_University "Cornell University"),[\[3\]](https://en.
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