Hosted by Zaki, dkristoffersson, Esben Kran, fbarez, Apart Research, Otto Barten, AlexiosBS, Elizabeth Seger · #aigovhack

A weekend for exploring AI & society! 

With collaborators from OpenAI, Centre for the Governance of AI, Existential Risk Observatory and AI Objectives Institute, we present cases that you will work in small groups to find solutions for during this weekend!

🏆$2,000 on the line

Join the hackathon Discord here.

AI Governance 

There are immense opportunities and risks with artificial intelligence. In this hackathon, we focus on how we can mitigate and secure against the most severe risks using strategic frameworks for AI governance.

Some of these risks include labor displacement, inequality, an oligopolistic global market structure, reinforced totalitarianism, shifts and volatility in national power, strategic instability, and an AI race that sacrifices safety and other values [1].

The objective of this hackathon is to research strategies and technical solutions to the global strategic challenges of AI.

• Can we imagine scenarios where AI leads to events that cause a major risk for humanity? [2, 3, 4]

• Can we predict when AI will reach specific milestones and how future AI will act and behave from a technical perspective? [5, 6, 7]

• Can we find warning signs that should warn us that we are soon to hit a state of extreme risk? [8, 9, 10] And figure out when they actually work [11].

These and more questions will be the target of your 48 hours! With the potential to turn into a technical report or a blog post, we look forward to see what you come up with.

Local groups

If you are part of a local machine learning or AI safety group, you are very welcome to set up a local in-person site to work together with people on this hackathon! We will have several across the world (list upcoming) and hope to increase the amount of local spots. Sign up to run a jam site here.

You will work in groups of 1-6 people within our hackathon Discord and in the in-person event hubs.

Project submission & judging criteria

You write up your case proposals as PDFs using the template and upload them here on itch.io as project submissions for this hackathon. See how to submit your project.