Advanced AI Alignment

This advanced follow-up to STS 10SI: Intro to AI Alignment explores the frontier of current AI alignment research directions and helps you develop your own inside view on AI safety research. In Advanced AI Alignment, we will first spend 7 weeks discussing readings and completing technical alignment exercises in small groups. Like STS 10SI, you will meet in small discussion groups for up to 1.5 hours each week to discuss the week¿s content. In weeks 6 and 7, your group will choose between three branches of content: Eliciting Latent Knowledge, Agent Foundations, or Science of Deep Learning. In weeks 8-10, you will develop a literature review or a research proposal on an AI alignment topic of your choice to set yourself up for impactful AI safety research after the class, and you will have the opportunity to present your work at Stanford AI Alignment¿s quarterly Research Symposium during finals week. Prerequisite: STS 10SI or equivalent intro AI alignment knowledge; a course in AI or ML. Enrollment is limited and by application only. View the full syllabus and apply at http://bit.ly/3ExRXnm. Enrollment is only by instructor permission. Please apply at the above link by 9:00 PM PDT on Sunday, January 1, 2023