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Steve Petersen

Position
Associate Professor
Organisation
Niagara University
Biography

Why do you care about AI Existential Safety?

I am concerned about existential risk for the usual reasons, and my interest is specifically in the AI aspects of existential risk because it’s where I think I have the best leverage. Since I am a professional philosopher who has a decent math and computer science background, I am hoping to help widen the bottleneck between the technical AI safety community and the related issues in traditional philosophy.

Please give one or more examples of research interests relevant to AI existential safety:

  1. Philosophical aspects of value alignment, especially formal value learning
  2. The line of sentience for physical systems

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