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Dylan Hadfield-Menell

MIT professor; Stuart Russell student; assistance games

MIT assistant professor and former Stuart Russell PhD student who works on assistance games and practical alignment of AI systems.

current Assistant Professor, MIT CSAIL

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Alignment firstendorses

Solve technical alignment before capability thresholds close

Works on assistance games, the Russellian proposal that AI should model and defer to human preferences rather than optimise fixed objectives.

Assistance games give us a framework where AI uncertainty about human preferences is a feature, not a bug.

¶ articleDylan Hadfield-Menell homepage· MIT CSAIL· 2017· loose paraphrase

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