SRI Seminar Series: Dylan Hadfield-Menell, “You can’t have AI safety without inclusion”

The weekly SRI Seminar Series welcomes Dylan Hadfield-Menell, the Bonnie and Marty Tenenbaum Career Development Assistant Professor at MIT’s Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and a Schmidt Futures AI2050 Early Career Fellow. Hadfield-Menell runs the Algorithmic Alignment Group in the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) at MIT.

Hadfield-Menell’s research focuses on the problem of agent alignment: the challenge of identifying behaviours that are consistent with the goals of another actor or group of actors. His research group works to identify solutions to alignment problems that arise from groups of AI systems, principal-agent pairs such as human-robot teams, and societal oversight of machine learning systems. He is also interested in work that bridges the gap between AI theory and practical robotics, and the problem of integrated task and motion planning.