AI safety researcher Paul Christiano to headline Hinton Lectures in Toronto

US AI safety researcher Paul Christiano, a key figure behind RLHF, will be the distinguished speaker at the third annual Hinton Lectures in Toronto from Nov. 9 to 11. He calls the current period "a particularly dangerous moment," citing rapid AI progress in math and sophisticated real-world planning.

• Christiano co-introduced RLHF and leads the Alignment Research Center
• The Hinton Lectures run Nov. 9–11, co-founded by Geoffrey Hinton
• He puts ARC's odds of success closer to 10 percent than 50 percent
• He says RLHF is "extremely difficult to scale" and "will probably break down"