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Coffee and Check-In
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Welcome Address
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Simulating Counterfactual Training
Roger Grosse (University of Toronto)
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Break
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AI Safety Via Inference-Time Compute
Boaz Barak (Harvard University)
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Lunch (on your own)
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Controlling Untrusted AIs With Monitors
Ethan Perez (Anthropic)
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Break
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Game Theoretic Approaches to AI Safety
Georgios Piliouras (Google DeepMind + SUTD)
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Reception
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Coffee and Check-In
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Full-Stack Alignment
Ryan Lowe (Meaning Alignment Institute)
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Break
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Can We Get Asymptotic Safety Guarantees Based On Scalable Oversight?
Geoffrey Irving (UK AI Safety Institute)
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Lunch (on your own)
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Amortised Inference Meets Llms: Algorithms And Implications For Faithful Knowledge Extraction
Nikolay Malkin (University of Edinburgh)
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Break
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Superintelligent Agents Pose Catastrophic Risks — Can Scientist AI Offer a Safer Path? | Richard M. Karp Distinguished Lecture
Yoshua Bengio (IVADO - Mila - Université de Montréal)
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Panel Discussion
Yoshua Bengio (IVADO - Mila - Université de Montréal), Dawn Song (UC Berkeley), Roger Grosse, Geoffrey Irving, Siva Reddy (IVADO - Mila - McGill University)
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Coffee and Check-In
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Robustness of jailbreaking across aligned LLMs, reasoning models and agents
Siva Reddy (IVADO - Mila - McGill University)
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Break
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Adversarial Training For LLMs' Safety Robustness
Gauthier Gidel (IVADO - Mila - Université de Montréal)
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Break
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Antidistillation Sampling
Zico Kolter (Carnegie Mellon University)
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Lunch (on your own)
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Causal Representation Learning: A Natural Fit for Mechanistic Interpretability
Dhanya Sridhar (IVADO + Université de Montréal + Mila)
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Break
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Out Of Distribution, Out Of Control? Understanding Safety Challenges In AI
Aditi Raghunathan (Carnegie Mellon University)
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Coffee and Check-In
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LLM Negotiations And Social Dilemmas
Aaron Courville (IVADO + Université de Montréal + Mila)
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Break
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Scalably Understanding AI With AI
Jacob Steinhardt (UC Berkeley)
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Lunch (on your own)
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Future Directions In AI Safety Research
Dawn Song (UC Berkeley)
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Break
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What Can Theory Of Cryptography Tell Us About AI Safety
Shafi Goldwasser (Simons Institute)
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Assessing The Risk Of Advanced Reinforcement Learning Agents Causing Human Extinction
Michael Cohen (UC Berkeley)
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Coffee and Check-In
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Safeguarded AI Workflows
David Dalrymple (MIT)
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Break
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AI Safety: LLMs, Facts, Lies, And Agents In The Real World
Christopher Pal (IVADO + Polytechnique Montréal + Université de Montréal + Mila)
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Break
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Measurements For Capabilities And Hazards
Dan Hendrycks (Center for AI Safety)
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Lunch (on your own)
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Theoretical And Empirical Aspects Of Singular Learning Theory For AI Alignment
Daniel Murfet (Timaeus)
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Break
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Probabilistic Safety Guarantees Using Model Internals
Jacob Hilton (Alignment Research Center)
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Closing Remarks
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