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AI Safety Needs Social Scientists

Geoffrey Irving, Amanda Askell
Distill 2019
doi:10.23915/distill.00014 /distill/2019/irving2019distill-ai/

Abstract

Distill articles are interactive publications and do not include traditional abstracts. This summary was written for the ML Anthology. Argues that developing safe AI systems requires empirical expertise from social scientists, particularly for studying how people make judgments about complex, value-laden questions that AI systems may encounter.

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Text

Irving and Askell. "AI Safety Needs Social Scientists." Distill, 2019. doi:10.23915/distill.00014

Markdown

[Irving and Askell. "AI Safety Needs Social Scientists." Distill, 2019.](https://mlanthology.org/distill/2019/irving2019distill-ai/) doi:10.23915/distill.00014

BibTeX

@article{irving2019distill-ai,
  title     = {{AI Safety Needs Social Scientists}},
  author    = {Irving, Geoffrey and Askell, Amanda},
  journal   = {Distill},
  year      = {2019},
  doi       = {10.23915/distill.00014},
  url       = {https://mlanthology.org/distill/2019/irving2019distill-ai/}
}