Asilomar Conference on Beneficial AI

<p>The Asilomar Conference on Beneficial AI was a <a href="/facts/Academic_conference/0YAVfxe3">conference</a> organized by the <a href="/facts/Future_of_Life_Institute/9uVkYMLb">Future of Life Institute</a>, held January 5–8, 2017, at the <a href="/facts/Asilomar_Conference_Grounds/EXvUzh0j">Asilomar Conference Grounds</a> in <a href="/facts/California/zLW2vdQJ">California</a>. More than 100 thought leaders and researchers in economics, law, ethics, and philosophy met at the conference, to address and formulate principles of beneficial AI. Its outcome was the creation of a set of guidelines for AI research – the 23 Asilomar AI Principles.
</p><p>The principles, published as an open letter, received signatures from scientist <a href="/facts/Stephen_Hawking/b7dcce7n">Stephen Hawking</a>, CEO of <a href="/facts/Google_DeepMind/n5ehBwCx">Google Deepmind</a> <a href="/facts/Demis_Hassabis/Cua93qw0">Demis Hassabis</a>, AI researchers <a href="/facts/Ilya_Sutskever/dBXbUQ39">Ilya Sutskever</a>, <a href="/facts/Yann_LeCun/phhGMM3E">Yann LeCun</a>, <a href="/facts/Yoshua_Bengio/796atWBU">Yoshua Bengio</a>, and <a href="/facts/Stuart_J._Russell/f6EbRvSV">Stuart Russell</a>, philosophers <a href="/facts/Sam_Harris/Wfef7Pa2">Sam Harris</a> and <a href="/facts/William_MacAskill/o4cNuDCy">Will MacAskill</a>, and actor <a href="/facts/Joseph_Gordon-Levitt/dFpD0XHg">Joseph Gordon-Levitt</a>, amongst others.
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Asilomar Conference on Beneficial AI