Information for DeepMind

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Basic information

Item Value
Agendas Recursive reward modeling

Positions count by year

Hover over a name to see the position and date range. This table only includes positions where at least the start date is known. The positions count can count the same person multiple times if they held different positions; similarly, the list of staff may include the same person multiple times if they held more than one position during a single year. For each year, a person is included if they were at the organization for any part of the year; this means the actual staff count at any point during the year can be lower (or higher, if some staff held multiple positions in a single year).

Year Positions count Researchers General staff Associates Board members Advisors

Number of full-time staff at the beginning each year

The following table lists some dates and people who were at the organization on the given date (namely, the start of the year). The table may not list every person who worked for the organization (e.g. they could have joined and left in the middle of a single year). This table excludes associates, interns, advisors, and board members.

Date Staff count Staff

Full history of additions and subtractions

This table shows the full change history of positions. Each row corresponds to at least one addition or removal of a position. Additions are in green and subtractions are in red. If a position name changed, it is listed simultaneously as an addition (of the new name) and removal (of the old name) and colored yellow. Additionally there are faded variants of each color for visited links.

Date Number of positions Number of positions added Number of positions removed Positions added Positions removed

List of people (0 positions)

Person Title Start date End date AI safety relation Subject Employment type Source Notes

Products (0 products)

Name Creation date Description

Organization documents (1 document)

Title Publication date Author Publisher Affected organizations Affected people Document scope Cause area Notes
How to train for a job developing AI at OpenAI or DeepMind 2017-07-21 Robert Wiblin 80,000 Hours OpenAI, DeepMind Robert Wiblin, Daio Amodei Job experience AI Robert Wiblin interviews Dario Amodei for the 80,000 Hours podcast about working at OpenAI and about the domains of AI and AI safety. The latter half of the podcast includes advice for people training to work in AI organizations such as OpenAI and DeepMind

Documents (2 documents)

Title Publication date Author Publisher Affected organizations Affected people Affected agendas Notes
New safety research agenda: scalable agent alignment via reward modeling 2018-11-20 Victoria Krakovna LessWrong Google DeepMind Jan Leike Recursive reward modeling, iterated amplification Blog post on LessWrong announcing the recursive reward modeling agenda. Some comments in the discussion thread clarify various aspects of the agenda, including its relation to Paul Christiano’s iterated amplification agenda, whether the DeepMind safety team is thinking about the problem of whether the human user is a safe agent, and more details about alternating quantifiers in the analogy to complexity theory. Jan Leike is listed as an affected person for this document because he is the lead author and is mentioned in the blog post, and also because he responds to several questions raised in the comments.
Scalable agent alignment via reward modeling: a research direction 2018-11-19 Jan Leike, David Krueger, Tom Everitt, Miljan Martic, Vishal Maini, Shane Legg arXiv Google DeepMind Recursive reward modeling, Imitation learning, inverse reinforcement learning, Cooperative inverse reinforcement learning, myopic reinforcement learning, iterated amplification, debate This paper introduces the (recursive) reward modeling agenda, discussing its basic outline, challenges, and ways to overcome those challenges. The paper also discusses alternative agendas and their relation to reward modeling.

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