In the fall I am planning to teach an AI safety graduate course at Harvard. The format is likely to be roughly similar to my "foundations of deep learning" course.
I am still not sure of the content, and would be happy to get suggestions.
Some (somewhat conflicting desiderata):
- I would like to cover the various ways AI could go wrong: malfunction, misuse, societal upheaval, arms race, surveillance, bias, misalignment, loss of control,... (and anything else I'm not thinking of right now). I talke about some of these issues here and here.
- I would like to see what we can learn from other fields, including software security, aviation and automative safety, drug safety, nuclear arms control, etc.. (and happy to get other suggestions)
- Talk about policy as well, various frameworks inside companies, regulations etc..
- Talk about predictions for the future, methodologies for how to come up with them.
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July 3rd, 2025
Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/qe8LjXAtaZfrc8No7/call-for-suggestions-ai-safety-course)
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