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| 2017 || {{dts|April 26}} || Publication || The online book ''Modeling Agents with Probabilistic Programs'' by Owain Evans (FHI research fellow), Andreas Stuhlmüller, John Salvatier (FHI intern), and Daniel Filan (FHI intern) is published. The book is available at [https://agentmodels.org/ <code>https://agentmodels.org/</code>].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://agentmodels.org/ |title=Modeling Agents with Probabilistic Programs |accessdate=March 13, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.fhi.ox.ac.uk/new-interactive-tutorial-planning-reinforcement-learning/ |author=Future of Humanity Institute - FHI |title=New Interactive Tutorial: Modeling Agents with Probabilistic Programs - Future of Humanity Institute |publisher=Future of Humanity Institute |date=April 26, 2017 |accessdate=March 13, 2018}}</ref>
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| 2017 || {{dts|April 27}} || Publication || "That is not dead which can eternal lie: the aestivation hypothesis for resolving Fermi's paradox" is uploaded to the arXiv.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://arxiv.org/abs/1705.03394 |title=[1705.03394] That is not dead which can eternal lie: the aestivation hypothesis for resolving Fermi's paradox |accessdate=March 10, 2018}}</ref><ref name="larks-december-2017-review" /><ref name="newsletter-summer-2017">{{cite web |url=https://www.fhi.ox.ac.uk/quarterly-update-summer-2017/ |author=Future of Humanity Institute - FHI |title=FHI Quarterly Update Summer 2017 |publisher=Future of Humanity Institute |date=July 31, 2017 |accessdate=March 14, 2018}}</ref>|-| 2017 || {{dts|May 24}} || Publication || "When Will AI Exceed Human Performance? Evidence from AI Experts" is published on the {{w|arXiv}}. Three of the authors of this paper are affiliated with FHI: Katja Grace, Allan Dafoe, and Owain Evans.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://arxiv.org/abs/1705.08807 |title=[1705.08807] When Will AI Exceed Human Performance? Evidence from AI Experts |accessdate=July 13, 2017}}</ref>
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| 2017 || {{dts|July}} || Financial || The {{W|Open Philanthropy Project}} recommends (to Good Ventures?) a grant of $299,320 to Yale University to support "to support research on the global politics of advanced artificial intelligence". The work will be led by Allan Dafoe, who will conduct part of the work at FHI.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/global-catastrophic-risks/potential-risks-advanced-artificial-intelligence/yale-university-global-politics-of-ai-dafoe |publisher=Open Philanthropy Project |title=Yale University — Research on the Global Politics of AI |date=December 15, 2017 |accessdate=March 11, 2018}}</ref>
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| 2017 || {{Dts|July 17}} || Publication || "Trial without Error: Towards Safe Reinforcement Learning via Human Intervention" is uploaded to the arXiv.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://arxiv.org/abs/1707.05173 |title=[1707.05173] Trial without Error: Towards Safe Reinforcement Learning via Human Intervention |accessdate=March 10, 2018}}</ref><ref name="larks-december-2017-review">{{cite web |url=http://effective-altruism.com/ea/1iu/2018_ai_safety_literature_review_and_charity/ |title=2018 AI Safety Literature Review and Charity Comparison |author=Larks |publisher=Effective Altruism Forum |accessdate=March 10, 2018}}</ref>
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| 2017 || {{dts|August 25}} || Publication || FHI announces three new forthcoming papers in the latest issue of ''Health Security''.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.fhi.ox.ac.uk/fhi-publishes-three-new-biosecurity-papers-health-security/ |author=Future of Humanity Institute - FHI |title=FHI publishes three new biosecurity papers in 'Health Security' - Future of Humanity Institute |publisher=Future of Humanity Institute |date=August 25, 2017 |accessdate=March 14, 2018}}</ref><ref name="newsletter-autumn-2017">{{cite web |url=https://www.fhi.ox.ac.uk/quarterly-update-autumn-2017/ |author=Future of Humanity Institute - FHI |title=Quarterly Update Autumn 2017 - Future of Humanity Institute |publisher=Future of Humanity Institute |date=October 10, 2017 |accessdate=March 14, 2018}}</ref>
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| 2017 || {{dts|September 29}} || Financial || Effective Altruism Grants fall 2017 recipients are announced. One of the recipients is Gregory Lewis, who will use the grant for "Research into biological risk mitigation with the Future of Humanity Institute." The grant amount for Lewis is £15,000 (about $20,000).<ref>{{cite web |url=https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1iBy–zMyIiTgybYRUQZIm11WKGQZcixaCmIaysRmGvk/edit#gid=0 |title=EA Grants Fall 2017 Recipients |publisher=Google Docs |accessdate=March 11, 2018}}</ref>
