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Monday 6/7Tuesday 6/8
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Time (PDT)Time (UTC)ActivityTime (PDT)Time (UTC)Activity
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8:00 AM - 9:00 AM3:00 PM - 4:00 PMGather.town
Mingling		8:00 AM - 9:00 AM3:00 PM - 4:00 PMGather.town
Mingling
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9:00 AM - 9:30 AM4:00 PM - 4:30 PMWelcome & Group Photo9:00 AM - 9:50 AM4:00 PM - 4:50 PMPlenary 2A
Cooperation in Strategic Games
Adam Kalai
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9:30 AM - 10:20 AM4:30 PM - 5:20 PMPlenary 1A
CHAI 2021: Looking Forward
Stuart Russell
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10:20 AM - 11:00 AM5:20 PM - 6:00 PMGather.town
• After-session discussions
• Meetups		9:50 AM - 10:30 AM4:50 PM - 5:30 PMGather.town
• After-session discussions
• Meetups
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11:00 AM - 12:00 PM6:00 PM - 7:00 PMParallel Talks 1A10:30 AM - 11:30 AM5:30 PM - 6:30 PMParallel Talks 2A
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Dialogue Talk
How can today's regulation set good precedents for the long-term governance of AI?
Matthijs Maas
Roxanne Heston		Serial Talks
Sam Toyer: Evaluating generalization in imitation learning
Scott Garrabrant: Finite Factored Sets		Serial Talks
Stefano Ermon: Making Right Decisions from Wrong Predictions
Smitha Milli: From Optimizing Engagement to Measuring Value		Serial Talks
Ariel Procaccia: Democracy and the Pursuit of Randomness
Andrew Critch: Open source game theory: cooperative and uncooperative institution designs		Serial Talks
Cassidy Laidlaw: Perceptual Adversarial Robustness: Defense Against Unseen Threat Models
Jonathan Uesato: Progress and Current Challenges in Specification-Consistent Machine Learning		Serial Talks
Iyad Rahwan: Society-in-the-loop: From AI ethics to AI politics
Seth Baum: Setting the stage for future AI governance
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12:00 PM - 12:40 PM7:00 PM - 7:40 PMGather.town
• After-session discussions
• Reminder to set up one-on-ones		11:30 AM - 12:20 PM6:30 PM - 7:20 PMGather.town
• After-session discussion
• Reminder to set up one-on-ones
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12:40 PM - 1:40 PM7:40 PM - 8:40 PMParallel Talks 1B12:20 PM - 1:20 PM7:20 PM - 8:20 PMParallel Talks 2B
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Dialogue Talk
Minding the gap vs. closing the gap: Can robust formulations make up for inaccurate models?
David Scott Krueger
Jaime Fernández Fisac		Serial Talks
Roger Grosse: Learning Verifiable Representations
Pieter Abbeel: Human-in-the-loop Reinforcement Learning		Serial Talks
Sheila McIlraith: Common Sense, Common Ground, and Avoiding Side Effects
Alex Turner: Conservative agency with multiple stakeholders		Dialogue Talk
What is a beneficial recommender system and how could one tell?
Jonathan Stray
Dylan Hadfield-Menell		Serial Talks
Kush Bhatia: Agnostic learning with unknown utilities
Adam Gleave: Understanding and Evaluating Learned Reward Functions		Serial Talks
Sydney Levine: The Function, Structure, and Dynamics of Moral Rules
Jacob Foster: Culture and computation: Steps to a probably approximately correct theory of culture
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1:40 PM - 2:20 PM8:40 PM - 9:20 PMGather.town
• After-session discussions
• Meetups		1:20 PM - 2:00 PM8:20 PM - 9:00 PMGather.town
• After-session discussions
• Meetups
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2:20 PM - 3:20 PM9:20 PM - 10:20 PMParallel Talks 1C2:00 PM - 3:00 PM9:00 PM - 10:00 PMPanel
 How to achieve cooperation (and not schisms) between nations, industries, and civil societies in addressing AI risk?
Adrian Weller
David Duvenaud
Rosie Campbell
Helen Toner
Moderator: Brian Christian
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Dialogue Talk
How will we train AI to engage in normative thinking?
Thomas Krendl Gilbert
Gillian Hadfield		Serial Talks
Vincent Conitzer: Computational Social Choice for Determining Objectives for AI
Natasha Jaques: Social Influence as Intrinsic Motivation for Multi-Agent Deep Reinforcement Learning		Serial Talks
Max Kleiman-Weiner: Bayesian inference for coordinating multi-agent collaboration
Tom Lenaerts: An empirical investigation into norms, translucency, and theory of mind
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3:20 PM - 4:00 PM10:20 PM - 11:00 PMGather.town
• After-session discussions
• Meetups		3:00 PM - 3:40 PM10:00 PM - 10:40 PMGather.town
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4:00 PM - 4:50 PM11:00 PM - 11:50 PMPlenary Dialogue Talk 1B
How can we arrange societies to better ensure we satisfy human values?
Peter Eckersley
Glen Weyl		3:40 PM - 4:40 PM10:40 PM - 11:40 PMParallel Talks 2C
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Dialogue Talk
Why do we (and why should others) spend so much time thinking about the middle range of societal impacts of AI?
Shahar Avin
Ted Parson		Serial Talks
Dorsa Sadigh: Learning and Influencing in Large Scale Multi-Agent Systems
Michael Dennis: Stabilizing Mixed Policies in Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning		Serial Talks
Abram Orion Demski: Formalizing Inner Alignment
Michael Cohen: Why Advanced Artificial Agents Intervene in the Provision of Reward
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4:50 PM - 6:00 PM11:50 PM - 1:00 AMHappy Hour4:40 PM - 5:20 PM11:40 PM - 12:20 AMGather.town
After-session discussion
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5:20 PM - 6:10 PM12:20 AM - 1:10 AMPlenary 2B
Goal-Agnostic Formulations of Assistance
Anca Dragan
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6:10 PM - 6:20 PM1:10 AM - 1:20 AMClosing Remarks & Group Photo
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6:20 PM - 7:00 PM1:20 AM - 2:00 AMAfterparty