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1 post published by Victoria Krakovna during January 2020| Victoria Krakovna
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1 post published by Victoria Krakovna during January 2019| Victoria Krakovna
2 posts published by Victoria Krakovna during January 2018| Victoria Krakovna
Last weekend, I attended OpenAI’s self-organizing conference on machine learning (SOCML 2016), meta-organized by Ian Goodfellow (thanks Ian!). It was held at OpenAI’s new office, with s…| Victoria Krakovna
1 post published by Victoria Krakovna during January 2017| Victoria Krakovna
2 posts published by Victoria Krakovna during December 2015| Victoria Krakovna
1 post published by Victoria Krakovna during January 2015| Victoria Krakovna
I’ve been collecting data about myself on a daily basis for the past 3 years. Half a year ago, I switched from using 42goals (which I only remembered to fill out once every few days) to a Goo…| Victoria Krakovna
I have used various organization and productivity systems in the past few years – this is an overview of what worked and what didn’t. (2024 update here.) Main systems I currently use: Follow …| Victoria Krakovna
1 post published by Victoria Krakovna during July 2025| Victoria Krakovna
I’ve been doing life tracking for around 10 years, and this post is looking back at some things I learned from the data (since my previous retrospective in 2017). Highlights include what I ge…| Victoria Krakovna
Public discussions about catastrophic risks from general AI systems are often derailed by using the word “intelligence”. People often have different definitions of intelligence, or associate it with concepts like consciousness that are not relevant to AI risks, or dismiss the risks because intelligence is not well-defined. I would advocate for using the term “capabilities” […]| Victoria Krakovna
AI alignment work is usually considered “longtermist”, which is about preserving humanity’s long-term potential. This was the primary motivation for this work when the alignment field got started around 20 years ago, and general AI seemed far away or impossible to most people in AI. However, given the current rate of progress towards advanced AI […]| Victoria Krakovna
(Coauthored with others on the alignment team and cross-posted from the alignment forum: part 1, part 2) A sharp left turn (SLT) is a possible rapid increase in AI system capabilities (such as planning and world modeling) that could result in alignment methods no longer working. This post aims to make the sharp left turn scenario […]| Victoria Krakovna
(This post is based on an overview talk I gave at UCL EA and Oxford AI society (recording here). Cross-posted to the Alignment Forum. Thanks to Janos Kramar for detailed feedback on this post and t…| Victoria Krakovna
This is an annual post reviewing the last year and making resolutions and predictions for next year. This year’s edition features sleep tracking, intermittent fasting, overcommitment busting,…| Victoria Krakovna
2018 progress Research / AI safety: Wrote a paper on measuring side effects using relative reachability in May, and presented the results at the ICML GoalsRL workshop and the AI safety summer schoo…| Victoria Krakovna
2017 progress Research/career: Coauthored RL with reward corruption paper and presented the results at the U Toronto CS department, Workshop on Reliable AI, and Women in ML workshop. Coauthored AI …| Victoria Krakovna
2016 progress Research / career: Got a job at DeepMind as a research scientist in AI safety. Presented MiniSPN paper at ICLR workshop. Finished RNN interpretability paper and presented at ICML and …| Victoria Krakovna
2015 progress Research: Finished paper on the Selective Bayesian Forest Classifier algorithm Made an R package for SBFC (beta) Worked at Google on unsupervised learning for the Knowledge Graph with…| Victoria Krakovna
2014 progress If someone told me at the beginning of 2014 that I would co-found an organization to mitigate technological risks to humanity, I might not have believed them. Thanks Max, Meia, Anthon…| Victoria Krakovna
This is an annual post reviewing the last year and setting intentions for next year. I look over different life areas (work, health, parenting, effectiveness, travel, etc) and analyze my life track…| Victoria Krakovna
After 7 years at Deep End (and 4 more years in other group houses before that), Janos and I have moved out to live near a school we like and some lovely parks. The life change is bittersweet –…| Victoria Krakovna
This is an annual post reviewing the last year and setting intentions for next year. I look over different life areas (work, health, parenting, effectiveness, travel, etc) and draw conclusions from…| Victoria Krakovna
Last year, a major focus of my research was developing a better understanding of threat models for AI risk. This post is looking back at some posts on threat models I (co)wrote in 2022 (based on my…| Victoria Krakovna
This is an annual post reviewing the last year and setting goals for next year. Overall, this was a reasonably good year with some challenges (the invasion of Ukraine and being sick a lot). Some hi…| Victoria Krakovna
This was a rough year that sometimes felt like a trial by fire – sick relatives, caring for a baby, and the pandemic making these things more difficult to deal with. My father was diagnosed w…| Victoria Krakovna
