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Berkeley AI Risk

Reading group

Discussions of papers and research on AI risk, safety, ethics and alignment.

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Summer 2025 · 6 sessions

Sessions

  • Tue
    Jun 3, 2025
    1:00 PM
    Two divergent views on where we are heading
    Barker 101 · led by Wes Holliday
    Readings: Chapters 1-7 of Keep The Future Human, by Anthony Aguirre; Parts I-III of AI as Normal Technology, by Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kapoor
  • Tue
    Jun 17, 2025
    1:00 PM
    Even if near-term risks are averted, will AI gradually disempower humanity?
    Davis 534 · led by Will Fithian
    Reading: Gradual Disempowerment by Jan Kulveit et al.
  • Tue
    Jul 1, 2025
    1:00 PM
    How long will it be before AI is very powerful?
    Davis 534 · led by Adam Lesnikowski
    Primary readings: The case for AGI by 2030 by Ben Todd; Why transformative artificial intelligence is really, really hard to achieve by Arjun Ramani and Zhengdong Wang
  • Tue
    Jul 15, 2025
    1:00 PM
    Alignment faking
    Davis 534 · led by Arpita Roy, Will Fithian
    Primary readings: Alignment faking in large language models by Greenblatt et al.; On Bullshit by Harry Frankfurt
  • Tue
    Jul 29, 2025
    1:00 PM
    Strategic Implications of AI-Military Integration
    Evans 334 · led by Andrew Reddie
    Primary reading: Function, Not Fiction: Rethinking AI-Military Integration
  • Tue
    Aug 12, 2025
    1:00 PM
    Autonomous Weapons Systems
    Evans 334 · led by Chris Hoofnagle
    Primary reading: AI in the Military

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