How Can Machines Learn Human Values? – with Brian Christian

Brian explores everything that goes wrong when we build AI systems and introduces the people that fix them.
Brian’s book ‘The Alignment Problem’ is available now: https://geni.us/24uce
Watch the Q&A here: https://youtu.be/Gfd0HraqyHI

Recent years have seen an eruption of concern about machine learning. When the systems we attempt to teach don’t do what we want or what we expect, ethical and potentially existential risks emerge.

Brian Christian is the author of ‘The Most Human Human’, which was named a Wall Street Journal bestseller, a New York Times Editors’ Choice, and a New Yorker favourite book of the year.

This talk was recorded on the 21st January 2021.

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