A CFAR Applied Rationality Workshop just for Machine Learning students and practitioners!

Golden Gate Bridge
Anna Salamon teaching a class

 
When & Where: Tuesday August 30 through Sunday September 4, 2016, in the San Francisco Bay Area

 

What are CFAR workshops?

  • 4-day immersive workshops filled with hands-on material on how to notice what cognitive algorithms you seem to be running, check whether those algorithms seem to be helping you form accurate beliefs and achieve your goals, and edit them if not.
  • Workshops have been featured in the Wall Street Journal, Hacker News, New York Times, and elsewhere. Participants usually pay $3900 to attend (though this workshop is free) and give a mean response of 9.3 to “0 to 10, are you glad you came?”
  • If you’d like more info, you might check out: our workshops page, a schedule from a past workshop, testimonials, or our rationality habits checklist.

 

How is this workshop different?

  • It is just for students and practitioners in the fields of machine learning and artificial intelligence. This will allow the workshop to be tailored for people who are already used to thinking in terms of information-processing algorithms, to focus on examples from AI/ML research, and to be a place for networking within the AI/ML community.
  • It is free to participants, including room, board, and flights. That means we can select for an unusually awesome set of people and conversations.
  • There will be a bonus 5th day for discussion on the long-term impact of artificial intelligence, and on what reasoning habits — if spread across the relevant research communities — may increase the probability of positive long-term AI outcomes. We hope to elicit diverse opinions on this topic; structure will be provided to make it easier to converse openly and curiously with folks from highly divergent viewpoints.

 

Cost: Free, including room, board, and flights!

 

(The workshop is enabled by a grant from the Future of Life Institute with the aim of causing more tools for thinking and discussion to be available within the AI/ML community.)

 

Applications are now closed. This is a pilot program; it is possible similar programs will be run in the future, but there are no concrete plans.