Disclaimer: This post is a summary of a technical roadmap (HTML version, arXiv pre-print, twitter thread) evaluating how neuroscience could contribute to AI safety. The roadmap was recently released by the Amaranth Foundation, a philanthropic organization dedicated to funding ambitious research in longevity and neuroscience. The roadmap was developed jointly by Patrick Mineault*, Niccolò Zanichelli*, Joanne Peng*, Anton Arkhipov, Eli Bingham, Julian Jara-Ettinger, Emily Mackevicius, Adam Marblestone, Marcelo Mattar, Andrew Payne, Sophia Sanborn, Karen Schroeder, Zenna Tavares and Andreas Tolias.
TLDR: We wrote a comprehensive technical roadmap exploring potential ways neuroscience might contribute to AI safety. We adopted DeepMind's 2018 framework for AI safety, and evaluated seven different proposals, identifying key bottlenecks that... (read 1903 more words →)