Jess Whittlestone

Jess Whittlestone on societal implications of deep reinforcement Learning, AI policy, warning signs of transformative progress in AI, and more!

Show Notes

Dr. Jess Whittlestone is a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk and the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence, both at the University of Cambridge. 


Featured References 

The Societal Implications of Deep Reinforcement Learning 
Jess Whittlestone, Kai Arulkumaran, Matthew Crosby 

Artificial Canaries: Early Warning Signs for Anticipatory and Democratic Governance of AI 
Carla Zoe Cremer, Jess Whittlestone 


Additional References 

• CogX: Cutting Edge: Understanding AI systems for a better AI policy, featuring Jack Clark and Jess Whittlestone 

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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