The dramatic increase in the capabilities of our AI systems gives rise to major opportunities but also to risks. How can we prepare to fully take advantage of the former and mitigate the latter? In this talk, I will present my perspective on this challenge and discuss some of the relevant work of OpenAI’s Preparedness team.

Bio:

Aleksander Mądry is the Head of Preparedness at OpenAI. The Preparedness effort is tasked with tracking, evaluating, forecasting, and helping protect against catastrophic risks related to frontier AI models. Aleksander is also a Professor of Computing at MIT (currently on leave), where he has been serving as the Director of the MIT Center for Deployable Machine Learning and a Faculty Co-Lead of the MIT AI Policy Forum.