{"id":8585,"date":"2024-11-27T19:12:01","date_gmt":"2024-11-27T19:12:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=8585"},"modified":"2024-11-27T19:12:01","modified_gmt":"2024-11-27T19:12:01","slug":"how-safe-is-ai-safety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=8585","title":{"rendered":"How safe is AI safety?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today I gave a plenary talk on &#8220;How Safe is AI Safety?&#8221; to open a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crihn.org\/nouvelles\/2024\/11\/12\/workshop-on-ai-dh-part-1\/\">Workshop on AI and DH (Part 1)<\/a> organized by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crihn.org\/\">Centre de recherche interuniversitaire sur les humanit\u00e9s num\u00e9riques (CRIHN)<\/a> at the Universit\u00e9 de Montr\u00e9al.<\/p>\n<p>In the paper I looked at how AI safety is being implemented in Canada and what is the scope of the idea. I talked about the shift from Responsible AI to AI Safety in the Canadian government&#8217;s rhetoric.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m trying to figure out what to call the methodology I have developed for this and other research excursions. It has elements of Foucault&#8217;s geneaology of ideas &#8211; trying to follow ideas that are obvious through the ways the ideas are structured in institutions. Or, it is an extension of Ian Hacking&#8217;s idea of historical ontology where we try to understand ideas about things through their history.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I gave a plenary talk on &#8220;How Safe is AI Safety?&#8221; to open a Workshop on AI and DH (Part 1) organized by the Centre de recherche interuniversitaire sur les humanit\u00e9s num\u00e9riques (CRIHN) at the Universit\u00e9 de Montr\u00e9al. In the paper I looked at how AI safety is being implemented in Canada and what &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=8585\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How safe is AI safety?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[74,58,80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","category-ethics-of-data-science","category-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8585"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8586,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8585\/revisions\/8586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}