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Asilomar Conference on Beneficial AI

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Participants at the Asilomar Conference on Beneficial AI

The Asilomar Conference on Beneficial AI was a conference organized by the Future of Life Institute,[1] held January 5–8, 2017, at the Asilomar Conference Grounds in California. More than 100 thought leaders and researchers in economics, law, ethics, and philosophy met at the conference, to address and formulate principles of beneficial AI.[2] Its outcome was the creation of a set of guidelines for AI research – the 23 Asilomar AI Principles.[3]

The principles, published as an open letter, received signatures from scientist Stephen Hawking, CEO of Google Deepmind Demis Hassabis, AI researchers Ilya Sutskever, Yann LeCun, Yoshua Bengio, and Stuart Russell, philosophers Sam Harris and Will MacAskill, and actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt, amongst others.[4][5][3]

Notes and references

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  1. ^ “Future of Life Institute 2017 Asilomar Conference.” ai-ethics.com. https://ai-ethics.com/2017/08/11/future-of-life-institute-2017-asilomar-conference/ accessed 1 December 2017
  2. ^ "Beneficial AI conference develops ‘Asilomar AI principles’ to guide future AI research." Kurzweil Network. http://www.kurzweilai.net/beneficial-ai-conference-develops-asilomar-ai-principles-to-guide-future-ai-research accessed 1 December 2017
  3. ^ a b "Asilomar AI Principles". Future of Life Institute. Retrieved 2024-09-24.
  4. ^ "How OpenAI CEO Sam Altman Was Fired by Rival Board Members". The San Francisco Standard. 2023-11-18. Retrieved 2024-09-24.
  5. ^ Cuthbertson, Anthony (2017-01-31). "Elon Musk and Stephen Hawking Warn of AI Arms Race". Newsweek. Retrieved 2024-09-24.