Future of Humanity Institute https://www.fhi.ox.ac.uk University of Oxford Fri, 24 Sep 2021 13:05:38 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.7.13 Toby Ord & CSER comment on the UK Government’s National AI Strategy https://www.fhi.ox.ac.uk/comments-on-uk-ai-strategy/ Fri, 24 Sep 2021 13:05:36 +0000 https://www.fhi.ox.ac.uk/?p=30728 Toby Ord and CSER‘s Seán Ó hÉigeartaigh have released a joint statement on the UK’s newly-released National AI Strategy: We are pleased to see the UK Government set out its National AI Strategy.  AI is a transformative technology, with the potential to bring significant benefits to the UK. It is encouraging to see issues such […]

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]]> Future Proof – The opportunity to transform the UK’s resilience to extreme risks (Toby Ord, Cassidy Nelson, Gregory Lewis, and Markus Anderljung) https://www.fhi.ox.ac.uk/future-proof-the-opportunity-to-transform-the-uks-resilience-to-extreme-risks-toby-ord-cassidy-nelson-gregory-lewis-and-markus-anderljung/ Thu, 03 Jun 2021 08:21:51 +0000 https://www.fhi.ox.ac.uk/?p=30633 https://www.longtermresilience.org/futureproof

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]]> FHI experts call on UK government to prepare for extreme risks in new report, Future Proof https://www.fhi.ox.ac.uk/fhi-experts-call-on-uk-government-to-prepare-for-extreme-risks-in-new-report-future-proof/ Thu, 03 Jun 2021 08:18:22 +0000 https://www.fhi.ox.ac.uk/?p=30628 The UK government must act now to ensure the UK is prepared for future extreme risks even greater than Covid-19, a new report finds. Disease warfare, leaks of dangerous pathogens from high-security labs, and misuse of artificial intelligence (AI) systems are identified as key threats to the UK and the wider world. The report, Future […]

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]]> Inferring the effectiveness of government interventions against COVID-19 https://www.fhi.ox.ac.uk/inferring-the-effectiveness-of-government-interventions-against-covid-19/ Tue, 30 Mar 2021 09:37:26 +0000 https://www.fhi.ox.ac.uk/?p=30547 Jan Brauner (DPhil Scholar) and Mrinank Sharma (DPhil Affiliate) published Inferring the effectiveness of government interventions against COVID-19 in Science. The paper currently has the 7th highest attention score (measured by Altmetric) of all Science publications.

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]]> Causal Incentives Working Group https://www.fhi.ox.ac.uk/causal-incentives-working-group/ Wed, 10 Mar 2021 14:00:43 +0000 https://www.fhi.ox.ac.uk/?p=30437 In late 2020, a working group was established to use causal models to study incentive concepts, and their application to AI safety. It was founded by Ryan Carey (FHI) and Tom Everitt (DeepMind) and includes other researchers from Oxford and the University of Toronto. Since the formation of the working group, it has published four […]

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]]> Toby Ord contributes to UN Human Development Report 2020 https://www.fhi.ox.ac.uk/toby-ord-contributes-to-un-human-development-report-2020/ Thu, 17 Dec 2020 11:16:51 +0000 https://www.fhi.ox.ac.uk/?p=30145 The UN’s latest Human Development Report features a 7-page piece by Toby Ord on existential risk and the protection of humanity’s longterm potential. Toby said of the piece: I’ve long admired the HDR, and referred to it often when I worked on global poverty. So it’s great to be able to give something back, and […]

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]]> The New Yorker writes a profile on Toby Ord and The Precipice https://www.fhi.ox.ac.uk/profile-toby-ord-precipice/ Mon, 23 Nov 2020 17:09:27 +0000 https://www.fhi.ox.ac.uk/?p=30044 The post The New Yorker writes a profile on Toby Ord and The Precipice appeared first on Future of Humanity Institute.

]]> Best Paper Award at the 1st International Workshop on Evaluating Progress in Artificial Intelligence – EPAI 2020 https://www.fhi.ox.ac.uk/best-paper-award-at-the-1st-international-workshop-on-evaluating-progress-in-artificial-intelligence-epai-2020/ Mon, 05 Oct 2020 19:31:17 +0000 https://www.fhi.ox.ac.uk/?p=29525 The post Best Paper Award at the 1st International Workshop on Evaluating Progress in Artificial Intelligence – EPAI 2020 appeared first on Future of Humanity Institute.

]]> Moral Uncertainty: Toby Ord Book Release https://www.fhi.ox.ac.uk/moral-uncertainty/ Tue, 15 Sep 2020 14:48:14 +0000 https://www.fhi.ox.ac.uk/?p=29446 The post Moral Uncertainty: Toby Ord Book Release appeared first on Future of Humanity Institute.

]]> The effectiveness and perceived burden of nonpharmaceutical interventions against COVID-19 transmission: a modelling study with 41 countries https://www.fhi.ox.ac.uk/the-effectiveness-and-perceived-burden-of-nonpharmaceutical-interventions-against-covid-19-transmission-a-modelling-study-with-41-countries/ Thu, 04 Jun 2020 15:17:15 +0000 https://www.fhi.ox.ac.uk/?p=28661 A team lead by researchers from FHI have released a large empirical study of the effects and perceived social burden of nonpharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) against COVID-19 transmission. To our knowledge, it is the largest data-driven study of NPI effectiveness to date. What did we do? We collected chronological data on 9 NPIs in 41 countries […]

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