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Aug 30, 2024 Our position paper, Beyond Preferences in AI Alignment, is out after 2 years in the making!
Aug 9, 2024 I co-organized and served as a panelist for the inaugural RL Safety Workshop at RLC 2024.
Jun 16, 2024 I gave an invited talk on Human-Aligned Language Agents via Cooperative Language-Guided Inverse Planning at the 8th Annual CHAI Workshop.
Jun 16, 2024 I gave an invited talk on going Beyond Preferences in AI Alignment at the Rio Sociotechnical AI Safety Workshop, co-located with FAccT 2024.
May 27, 2024 I gave a webinar on Pluralism in AI Alignment, hosted by ALIGN, the AI Alignment Network in Japan, based on prior work on Contractualist AI Alignment.
May 22, 2024 I received the 2024 Paul L. Penfield Student Service Award for my contributions to fostering diversity, equity and inclusion in the MIT EECS department.
May 15, 2024 I gave a talk on Towards Reliable AI Assistants via Probabilistic Programming, at AI Wednesdays, a space for AI builders and engineers in the Singaporean civil service.
May 10, 2024 I contributed to a position paper on moving Towards Guaranteed Safe AI, writing sections on the role of probabilistic programming and model-based planning in improving AI safety.
May 8, 2024 I presented talks on our papers Pragmatic Instruction Following and Goal Assistance via Cooperative Language-Guided Inverse Planning and Learning and Sustaining Shared Normative Systems via Bayesian Rule Induction in Markov Games at AAMAS 2024.
Apr 24, 2024 I gave talks on Real-Time Open-Ended Goal Inference via Probabilistic Programming at NUS, NTU, and A*STAR while visiting Singapore.
Feb 15, 2024 I gave an invited talk on Real-Time Open-Ended Goal Inference from Actions and Language via Bayesian Inverse Planning at UMass Amherst as part of the Machine Learning and Friends Lunch talk series.
Jul 29, 2023 I gave a talk on Sequential Monte Carlo Steering of Large Language Models using Probabilistic Programs at ICML 2024 SoDS workshop, on behalf of my co-author Alex Lew.
Jul 21, 2023 I participated in the inaugural RAISE.SG workshop on Singapore’s National AI Strategy, on the invitation of the Ministry of Communications and Information (MCI) and the Smart Nation and Digital Government Office (SNDGO).
Sep 3, 2022 I gave an invited talk at the EAGxSingapore 2022 conference on What Should AI Owe To Us? Towards Social Contracts for Accountable and Aligned AI Systems.
Jul 8, 2022 I gave a talk on Modeling the Mistakes of Boundedly Rational Agents Within a Bayesian Theory of Mind as part of the 2022 PIBBSS Speaker Series.
Jul 29, 2021 I gave a talk with Kim Auth introducing Julia Gender Inclusive to the world at JuliaCon 2021: Improving Gender Diversity In The Julia Community.
Nov 21, 2020 I gave an invited talk at the EAGxAsia-Pacific 2020 conference on AI alignment, philosophical pluralism, and the relevance of non-Western philosophy.