Thomas Krendl Gilbert

Thomas Krendl Gilbert on the Political Economy of Reinforcement Learning Systems & Autonomous Vehicles, Sociotechnical Commitments, AI Development for the Public Interest, and more!

Show Notes

Thomas Krendl Gilbert is a PhD student at UC Berkeley’s Center for Human-Compatible AI, specializing in Machine Ethics and Epistemology. 

Featured References 

Hard Choices in Artificial Intelligence: Addressing Normative Uncertainty through Sociotechnical Commitments 
Roel Dobbe, Thomas Krendl Gilbert, Yonatan Mintz 

Mapping the Political Economy of Reinforcement Learning Systems: The Case of Autonomous Vehicles 
Thomas Krendl Gilbert 

AI Development for the Public Interest: From Abstraction Traps to Sociotechnical Risks 
McKane Andrus, Sarah Dean, Thomas Krendl Gilbert, Nathan Lambert and Tom Zick 


Additional References 

• Political Economy of Reinforcement Learning Systems (PERLS) 
• The Law and Political Economy (LPE) Project 
• The Societal Implications of Deep Reinforcement Learning, Jess Whittlestone, Kai Arulkumaran, Matthew Crosby 
• Robot Brains Podcast: Yann LeCun explains why Facebook would crumble without AI 

Creators & Guests

Host

Robin Ranjit Singh Chauhan

🌱 Head of Eng @AgFunder 🧠 AI:Reinforcement Learning/ML/DL/NLP🎙️Host @TalkRLPodcast 💳 ex-@Microsoft ecomm PgmMgr 🤖 @UWaterloo CompEng 🇨🇦 🇮🇳

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In-depth interviews with brilliant people at the forefront of RL research and practice.
Guests from places like MILA, OpenAI, MIT, DeepMind, Berkeley, Amii, Oxford, Google Research, Brown, Waymo, Caltech, and Vector Institute.
Hosted by Robin Ranjit Singh Chauhan.