Timeline of Future of Humanity Institute
This is a timeline of the Future of Humanity Institute (FHI).
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Big picture
Time period | Development summary | More details |
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Full timeline
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2005 | June 1 or November 29 | The Future of Humanity Institute is established.[1][2][3] | |
2006 | March 2 | The ENHANCE project website is created[4] by Anders Sandberg.[5] | |
2006 | November 20 | Robin Hanson starts Overcoming Bias.[6] The first post on the blog seems to be from November 20.[7] On one of the earliest snapshots of the blog, the listed contributors are: Nick Bostrom, Eliezer Yudkowsky, Robin Hanson, Eric Schliesser, Hal Finney, Nicholas Shackel, Mike Huemer, Guy Kahane, Rebecca Roache, Eric Zitzewitz, Peter McCluskey, Justin Wolfers, Erik Angner, David Pennock, Paul Gowder, Chris Hibbert, David Balan, Patri Friedman, Lee Corbin, Anders Sandberg, and Carl Shulman.[8] The blog seems to have received support from FHI in the beginning.[9][5] | |
2005–2007 | Lighthill Risk Network is created by Peter Taylor of FHI.[5] | ||
2007 | May | The Whole Brain Emulation Workshop is hosted by FHI.[5] | |
2007 | August 24 | Wittgenstein and His Interpreters: Essays in Memory of Gordon Baker is published.[10][11] | |
2008 | Practical Ethics, a blog about ethics by FHI's Program on Ethics of the New Biosciences and the Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, launches.[12] | ||
2008 | September 15 | Publication | Global Catastrophic Risks is published.[13][11] |
2009 | January 1 | On the group blog (at the time) Overcoming Bias Nick Bostrom publishes a blog post proposing the Parliamentary Model of dealing with moral uncertainty. The blog post mentions that he is writing a paper on the topic with Toby Ord, but as of March 2018 the paper seems to never have been published.[14] | |
2009 | January 22 | Human Enhancement is published.[15][11] | |
2010 | June 21 | Anthropic Bias by Nick Bostrom is published. The book covers the topic of reasoning under observation selection effects.[16][11] | |
2011 | March 18 | Enhancing Human Capacities is published.[17][18] | |
2014 | July–September | Influence | Nick Bostrom's book Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies is published.[19] In March 2017, the Open Philanthropy Project considered this book FHI's "most significant output so far and the best strategic analysis of potential risks from advanced AI to date."[20] |
2015 | The Strategic AI Research Center starts some time after this period.[21] | ||
2015 | "Learning the Preferences of Bounded Agents" is published. One of the paper's authors is Owain Evans at FHI.[22][23] | ||
2016 | Stuart Armstrong's paper "Off-policy Monte Carlo agents with variable behaviour policies" is published.[24][23] | ||
2016 | "Learning the Preferences of Ignorant, Inconsistent Agents" is published. One of the paper's authors is Owain Evans at FHI.[25][23] | ||
2016 | June 1 | The paper "Safely interruptible agents" is announced on the Machine Intelligence Research Institute blog. One of the paper's authors is Stuart Armstrong of FHI.[26][23] | |
2016 | September | The Open Philanthropy Project recommends (to Good Ventures?) a grant of $115,652 to FHI to support the hiring of Piers Millett, who will work on biosecurity and pandemic preparedness.[27] | |
2016 | September 16 | Jan Leike's paper "Exploration Potential" is first uploaded to the arXiv.[28][23] | |
2017 | February 9 | Nick Bostrom's paper "Strategic Implications of Openness in AI Development" is published in the journal Global Policy.[29][23] | |
2017 | March | The Open Philanthropy Project recommends (to Good Ventures?) a grant of $1,995,425 to FHI for general support.[20] | |
2017 | April 27 | "That is not dead which can eternal lie: the aestivation hypothesis for resolving Fermi's paradox" is uploaded to the arXiv.[30][31] | |
2017 | July 17 | "Trial without Error: Towards Safe Reinforcement Learning via Human Intervention" is uploaded to the arXiv.[32][31] | |
2018 | February 20 | Publication | The report "The Malicious Use of Artificial Intelligence: Forecasting, Prevention, and Mitigation" is published. The report forecasts malicious use of artificial intelligence in the short term and makes recommendations on how to mitigate these risks from AI. The report is authored by individuals at Future of Humanity Institute, Centre for the Study of Existential Risk, OpenAI, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Center for a New American Security, and other institutions.[33][34][35] |
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References
- ↑ "About | Future of Humanity Institute | Programmes". Oxford Martin School. Retrieved February 7, 2018.
- ↑ "Future of Humanity Institute". Archived from the original on October 13, 2005. Retrieved February 7, 2018.
- ↑ "Wayback Machine" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on May 12, 2006. Retrieved February 7, 2018.
- ↑ Anders Sandberg. "ENHANCE Project Site". Archived from the original on April 6, 2006. Retrieved February 7, 2018.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 "Wayback Machine" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on January 17, 2009. Retrieved February 7, 2018.
- ↑ "Overcoming Bias : Bio". Retrieved June 1, 2017.
- ↑ "Overcoming Bias: How To Join". Retrieved September 26, 2017.
- ↑ "Overcoming Bias". Retrieved September 26, 2017.
- ↑ "FHI Updates". Archived from the original on July 5, 2007. Retrieved February 7, 2018.
- ↑ "Wittgenstein and His Interpreters: Essays in Memory of Gordon Baker: Amazon.co.uk: Guy Kahane, Edward Kanterian, Oskari Kuusela: 9781405129220: Books". Retrieved February 8, 2018.
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 11.3 "Future of Humanity Institute - Books". Archived from the original on November 3, 2010. Retrieved February 8, 2018.
- ↑ "Future of Humanity Institute Updates". Archived from the original on September 15, 2008. Retrieved February 7, 2018.
- ↑ "Global Catastrophic Risks: Nick Bostrom, Milan M. Ćirković: 9780198570509: Amazon.com: Books". Retrieved February 8, 2018.
- ↑ "Overcoming Bias : Moral uncertainty – towards a solution?". Retrieved March 10, 2018.
- ↑ "Human Enhancement: Amazon.co.uk: Julian Savulescu, Nick Bostrom: 9780199299720: Books". Retrieved February 8, 2018.
- ↑ "Anthropic Bias (Studies in Philosophy): Amazon.co.uk: Nick Bostrom: 9780415883948: Books". Retrieved February 8, 2018.
- ↑ "Enhancing Human Capacities: Amazon.co.uk: Julian Savulescu, Ruud ter Meulen, Guy Kahane: 9781405195812: Books". Retrieved February 8, 2018.
- ↑ "Future of Humanity Institute - Books". Archived from the original on January 16, 2013. Retrieved February 8, 2018.
- ↑ "Carl_Shulman comments on My Cause Selection: Michael Dickens". Effective Altruism Forum. September 17, 2015. Retrieved July 6, 2017.
- ↑ 20.0 20.1 "Future of Humanity Institute — General Support". Open Philanthropy Project. December 15, 2017. Retrieved March 10, 2018.
- ↑ "Opinion | Q&A: Philosopher Nick Bostrom on superintelligence, human enhancement and existential risk". The Washington Post. Retrieved February 8, 2018.
- ↑ "Learning the Preferences of Bounded Agents" (PDF). Retrieved March 10, 2018.
- ↑ 23.0 23.1 23.2 23.3 23.4 23.5 "2017 AI Risk Literature Review and Charity Comparison - Effective Altruism Forum". Retrieved March 10, 2018.
- ↑ Armstrong, Stuart. "Off-policy Monte Carlo agents with variable behaviour policies" (PDF). Retrieved March 10, 2018.
- ↑ "Learning the Preferences of Ignorant, Inconsistent Agents" (PDF). Retrieved March 10, 2018.
- ↑ Bensinger, Rob (September 12, 2016). "New paper: "Safely interruptible agents" - Machine Intelligence Research Institute". Machine Intelligence Research Institute. Retrieved March 10, 2018.
- ↑ "Future of Humanity Institute — Biosecurity and Pandemic Preparedness". Open Philanthropy Project. December 15, 2017. Retrieved March 10, 2018.
- ↑ "[1609.04994] Exploration Potential". Retrieved March 10, 2018.
- ↑ "Strategic Implications of Openness in AI Development". Retrieved March 10, 2018.
- ↑ "[1705.03394] That is not dead which can eternal lie: the aestivation hypothesis for resolving Fermi's paradox". Retrieved March 10, 2018.
- ↑ 31.0 31.1 Larks. "2018 AI Safety Literature Review and Charity Comparison". Effective Altruism Forum. Retrieved March 10, 2018.
- ↑ "[1707.05173] Trial without Error: Towards Safe Reinforcement Learning via Human Intervention". Retrieved March 10, 2018.
- ↑ "[1802.07228] The Malicious Use of Artificial Intelligence: Forecasting, Prevention, and Mitigation". Retrieved February 24, 2018.
- ↑ "Preparing for Malicious Uses of AI". OpenAI Blog. February 21, 2018. Retrieved February 24, 2018.
- ↑ Malicious AI Report. "The Malicious Use of Artificial Intelligence". Malicious AI Report. Retrieved February 24, 2018.