Dylan Hadfield-Menell (Google Scholar) (Website) recently finished his PhD at UC Berkeley and is starting as an assistant professor at MIT. He works on the problem of designing AI algorithms that pursue the intended goal of their users, designers, and society in general.  This is known as the value alignment problem.

Highlights from our conversation:

👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 How to align AI to human values

📉 Consequences of misaligned AI -> bias & misdirected optimization

📱 Better AI recommender systems