Timeline of AI safety

This is a timeline of AI safety. AI safety is the field focused on reducing risks from artificial intelligence (AI).

How the timeline was built
The initial version of the timeline was written by Issa Rice.

Issa likes to work locally and track changes with Git, so the revision history on this wiki only shows changes in bulk. To see more incremental changes, refer to the commit histories at the old location and the new location.

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What the timeline is still missing

 * The Matrix
 * maybe more at
 * more AI box results at but unfortunately no dates
 * stuff in and
 * siren/marketing worlds
 * TDT/UDT
 * Paul Christiano AI alignment blog. Also, more on Christiano's trajectory in AI safety
 * Intelligent Agent Foundations Forum
 * Alignment Forum (using the LessWrong software), arguably a successor to the Intelligent Agent Foundations Forum?
 * AI Watch
 * The launch of Ought
 * AI alignment prize
 * Translations of Superintelligence?
 * universal prior/distant superintelligences stuff
 * Steven Pinker?
 * AI summer school
 * when did the different approaches to alignment come along?
 * the name change from "friendly AI" to "AI safety" and "AI alignment" is probably worth adding, though this was gradual so kind of hard to pin down as an event. See also this comment.
 * CS 294-149: Safety and Control for Artificial General Intelligence (Fall 2018), taught by Andrew Critch and Stuart Russell
 * More recent grant rounds from Long-Term Future Fund
 * Survival and Flourishing Fund as the successor to BERI
 * Median Group (insofar as some of their research is about AI)
 * MIRI's nondisclosure-by-default policy
 * Norms set by OpenAI's decision not to release the full GPT2 model, and some of the discussion this sparked

More detail would help for these rows:


 * Launch of AI Impacts (who launched it, what sort of stuff it covers)
 * Concrete Problems in AI safety -- main stuff covered, and why it is considered a landmark in some ways
 * Center for Security and Emerging Technology -- talk more about who's founding it, and the relation with AI safety and their approach to it.

Timelines of organizations working in AI safety

 * Timeline of Machine Intelligence Research Institute
 * Timeline of Future of Humanity Institute
 * Timeline of OpenAI
 * Timeline of Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative

Other timelines related to AI

 * Timeline of Google Brain
 * Timeline of DeepMind
 * Timeline of machine learning