SUMMER RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP 2022
- Workshop on How to Plan a Research Project
- Theory of Change Workshop w/ Michael Aird, Rethink Priorities
- Modeling Existential Risk w/ Professor James Evans
- Nuclear and Climate Risks w/ Professor Daniel Holz
- Workshop on Research Productivity
- Q&A w/ Peter Wildeford, Co-CEO of Rethink Priorities
- Knowledge in AI Models w/ Professor Victor Veitch
- Workshop on Preventing Burnout
- Conflicts between Science and Public Perception w/ Professor Robert Rosner
- Interpreting AI Risk in Relation to Biological Threats w/ UChicago Office of Research Safety
2022 FELLOWS AND THEIR PROJECTS
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SANDRO DEL RIVO
UChicago Computer Science & Philosophy ‘23
Mentor: Victor Veitch (UChicago)
Project: Will AGI Learn Alien Concepts?
An exploration of how advanced AI models might form representations of objects and concepts
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SOREN DUNN
UChicago Chemistry, Statistics, & Data Science ‘23
Mentor: Victor Veitch (UChicago)
Project: Improving Evaluation of Factual Accuracy in Language Models
Investigates how to ensure AI models output true statements and not false but true-seeming or made-up responses
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GRANT HARRIS
UChicago Economics & Computational and Applied Math ‘25
Mentor: Ali Merali, Economics PhD Candidate, Yale University
Project: Cooperative AI: A Primer
A literature review of game theoretic implications for multi-agent AI models and human-AI interaction
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SUDHAMSHU HOSAMANE
UChicago MA Computational Social Science ‘23
Mentor: Munmun De Chaudhary, Georgia Institute of Technology
Project: Effective Strategies to Tackle Misinformation on Messaging Apps
Proposal for a study of how misinformation travels on encrypted messaging apps and intervention effectiveness
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HENRY JOSEPHSON
UChicago Philosophy & Data Science ‘25
Mentor: Cullen O’Keefe (OpenAI Research Scientist)
Project: A California Effect For Artificial Intelligence
Exploration of the feasibility for regulatory diffusion under various regulatory targets in California
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THEO KO
UChicago Computer Science & Computational and Applied Math ‘24
Mentor: Claire Donnat (UChicago)
Project: Accessing the Fairness Level of the Training Set of a Blackbox Graph Neural Network Model through Node Masking
Study of whether different nodes in an ML model have predictably greater influences on outputs
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NICOLE MATEO
UChicago Psychology & Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, Data Science Minor ‘24
Mentor: Anna Reosti (American Bar Foundation)
Project: Survey of POC and Impressions of AI Risk
Investigating how people of color consider the importance of existential AI risk given early AI applications have demonstrated harms to minorities
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JACK WIPPELL
UChicago MA in International Relations ‘22
Mentor: Robert Trager (UCLA), Duncan Snidal (Oxford)
Project: When Deviation is Not an Option: Lessons from Reykjavik on the Possibility of Zero-Fail Treaties
Research into whether treaties can be designed and enforced when deviation risks catastrophe
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ANDREW YANG
UChicago Computer Science & Linguistics ‘23
Mentor: Allyson Ettinger (UChicago)
Project: Knowledge Graphs for Language Model Evaluation
Suggestion that knowledge graphs be used to understand how concepts are encoded in language models
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FREDDIE YANG
MA with Certificate in Research Methods (UChicago Harris School of Public Policy) ‘23
Mentor: Allyson Ettinger (UChicago)
Project: A Random Thought On Multi-task Learning And AI Existential Risks
Investigation into whether training on one task can positively influence performance on another