Jaime Fernández Fisac is working to shed light on one of the most pressing dangers presaged by the increasing power and reach of AI technologies: the conjunction of large-scale language models like GPT-3 with advanced strategic decision-making systems like AlphaZero can bring about a plethora of extremely effective AI text-generation systems with the ability to produce compelling arguments in support of arbitrary ideas — whether true, false, benign or malicious.

His seminar — titled “Machine Bullshit: Emergent Manipulative Behavior in Language Agents," after Harry Frankfurt’s excellent 1986 philosophical essay “On Bullshit” — explains how his group aims is to bring together insights from dynamic game theory, machine learning and human-robot interaction to better understand risks and inform the design of safe language-enabled AI systems.

Fisac is an assistant professor in Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Princeton. He is an associated faculty member in the Department of Computer Science and the Center for Statistics and Machine Learning as well as a co-director of the Princeton AI4ALL summer camp. 

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This seminar will be recorded.