Project summary

Provide travel fundingfor a 1-week machine learning conference. Attendee will be presenting a paper on reward learning, STARC: A General Framework For Quantifying Differences Between Reward Functions, that is relevant to AI safety.

What are this project's goals and how they be achieved?

Improve the safety of AI systems by disseminating core research on this topic.

How will this funding be used?

Pay for conference ticket, round-trip flight, accommodation for a week, and food/sundries.

Who is on the team and what's their track record on similar projects?

Joar Skalse is a PhD student at Oxford, with a track record publishing strong papers like "Defining and characterizing reward gaming" and "Risks from learned optimization in advanced machine learning systems"

What are the most likely causes and outcomes if this project fails? (premortem)

People may not be interested in the paper, or they may be interested in but not build on the work.

What other funding is this person or project getting?

Funding not available from their lab at Oxford for travel funding.