University of California, Santa Barbara
The University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) houses the Center for Responsible Machine Learning (CRML), founded in 2019 and directed by Professor William Wang (Mellichamp Professor of AI). The center advances research in machine learning, NLP, and computer vision with emphasis on fairness, bias, privacy, transparency, explainability, and accountability. UCSB received an Open Philanthropy grant of $133,402 to support Professor Wang's project building a database and taxonomy of LLM use cases, part of Open Philanthropy's focus area on potential risks from advanced AI.
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UCSB's AI safety-relevant work operates through academic research and knowledge production. By building empirical databases of LLM use cases and studying the risks of large language models (misinformation, misuse, misalignment), the research group aims to provide the broader AI safety community with grounded taxonomies and evaluations that inform safer development. The Center for Responsible Machine Learning brings interdisciplinary perspectives to identifying and mitigating harms from AI systems, contributing to norms and technical understanding that can reduce risks from advanced AI.
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