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PIBBSS is looking to expand its team and is running work trials for new team members (primarily) in April, May and early June. If you’re interested in joining a nimble team focused on AI safety research, field-building and incubation of new agendas, consider letting us know by filling in this...

Between June and September 2023, we (Nora and Dusan) ran the second iteration of the PIBBSS Summer Fellowship. In this post, we share some of our main reflections about how the program went, and what we learnt about running it. We first provide some background information about (1) The theory...

TLDR: The PIBBSS Speaker Series is happening in mid-February. Read more about the talks and register on our website. Sign up for future updates about our speaker events here. PIBBSS regularly invites researchers from a wide range of fields studying intelligent behaviour and exploring their connections to the problem of...

TLDR: We're hosting a 3-month, fully-funded fellowship to do AI safety research drawing on inspiration from fields like evolutionary biology, neuroscience, dynamical systems theory, and more. Past fellows have been mentored by John Wentworth, Davidad, Abram Demski, Jan Kulveit and others, and gone on to work at places like Anthropic,...

TLDR: “Key Phenomena in AI Risk” is an 8-week-long, facilitated reading group. It is aimed at people interested in conceptual AI alignment research, in particular from fields such as philosophy, systems research, biology, cognitive and social sciences. We ran it once and are repeating it now. The program will run...

TL;DR: PIBBSS is hiring research affiliates! PIBBSS is a research initiative facilitating work that draws on the parallels between intelligent behavior in natural and artificial systems, and leveraging these insights towards making AI systems safe, beneficial and aligned. We want to support excellent researchers pursuing “PIBBSS-style” AI alignment research by...

Tl;dr We are pleased to invite you to the PIBBSS Summer Symposium where the fellows from the ‘23 fellowship program present their work. The symposium is taking place online, over several days in the week of September 18th. * Check out the full program, including brief descriptions for each talk....