EA - CERI Research Symposium Presentations (incl. Youtube links) by Will Aldred

Link to original articleWelcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: CERI Research Symposium Presentations (incl. Youtube links), published by Will Aldred on September 24, 2022 on The Effective Altruism Forum. Introduction The Cambridge Existential Risks Initiative (CERI) summer research fellowship (SRF) is a 10-week research training programme for aspiring x-risk researchers held in Cambridge, UK. CERI SRF ‘22 concluded with a research symposium on September 5th, and the presentations from that symposium are the subject of this post. For prospective CERI applicants: CERI SRF '23 is not yet open to applications; we’re currently evaluating our impact and considering our long term strategy. There will be a Forum post if and when we open our ‘23 round. In the meantime, you may be interested in our existential risks introductory course (ERIC), or in EA Cambridge's seminar programmes in AGI safety and biosecurity. Presentations CERI research symposium talks, from both '22 and '21, can be found at the CERI Youtube channel. Below, I break down the '22 fellows' talks by cause area, such that those interested might have a slightly easier time navigating which videos to watch. AI risk Technical Exploring and characterizing surprising generalization behavior in neural networks - Alexander Davies Mentor: Lauro Langosco (unavailable) Infrastructure considerations for advanced ML systems - Pranav Gade Mentor: Jeffrey Ladish Developing an ‘empathy mechanism’ for AI Agents - Tim Farrelly Mentors: Ivana Dusparic, Tim Franzmeyer, and Christian Schroeder de Witt Governance (unavailable) Article 15 compliance under the EU AI act: How developers and deployers of large foundation models should share regulatory burden - Somsubhro Bagchi Mentor: Risto Uuk Understanding applications of artificial intelligence to government surveillance - Catherine Brewer Mentor: Cecil Abungu Investigating the history of industry-led best practices for safety critical technologies and their implications on AGI governance - Yilin Huang Mentor: Claire Boine Biorisk Reimagining epidemic sovereignty: Rethinking global health governance of catastrophic biological risks - Hamza Tariq Chaudhry Mentor: Catherine Rhodes Improving DNA synthesis screening to prevent malicious actors from creating dangerous pathogens - Oscar Delaney & Hanna Pálya Mentors: Becky Mackleprang and Lalitha Sundaram Identifying technological bottlenecks in bio-surveillance systems - Brianna Gopaul & Ziyue Zeng Mentor: Akhil Bansal Avenues for reducing time to detection and alert for infectious disease outbreaks within West African nations - Sam Pritchard Mentor: Sophie Rose Nuclear risk (unavailable) Effects of transformative technologies on nuclear deterrence - Nathan Barnard Mentor: Matthew Gentzel Investigating India-Pakistan nuclear risk: What are the chances, how bad can it get, and what can we do to mitigate nuclear risk? - Vara Raturi Mentor: Rishi Paul Machine learning and nuclear command: How the technical flaws of automated systems and a changing human-machine relationship could impact the risk of inadvertent nuclear use - Peter Rautenbach Mentor: Haydn Belfield Disentanglement and overview of the nuclear risk field - Sarah Weiler Mentor: Christian Ruhl Extreme climate change Investigating the relationship between SRM research and global catastrophic and other related risks - Gideon Futerman Mentors: Goodwin Gibbins and Jesse Reynolds (unavailable) Estimating the risks from super pest outbreaks on the global food system - Kirke Joamets Mentor: anonymous Miscellaneous and meta x-risk (unavailable) Cooperation and conflict between AI systems in non-causal contexts - Jim Buhler Mentors: Caspar Oesterheld, Johannes Treutlein, and a third anonymous mentor Analysing the current space governance framework and designing more adaptive, longtermist space governance institutions - Carson Ezell Mentors: Giuliana ...