Sami Petersen @samicpetersen

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The Economics of Transformative AI Summer 2025 Some claim that advanced AI will greatly accelerate economic growth, displace labor, and/or risk existential catastrophe. This course covers a selection of tools in (mainly) economic theory relevant t...

GPI Research Affiliate Philip Trammell is giving a summer course on the Economics of Transformative AI at Stanford this year. More info and applications here: digitaleconomy.stanford.edu/etai-course/. Applications close 21 February.

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New working paper!

We develop an approach for safely delegating to strategically aware and potentially misaligned AI systems. The theoretical tool we use is sequential information design with imperfect recall.

A short thread on the key highlights.

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A new paper on the economics of AI alignment

A new paper on the economics of AI alignment

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Imperfect Recall and AI Delegation - Eric Olav Chen, Alexis Ghersengorin and Sami Petersen A principal wants to deploy an artificial intelligence (AI) system to perform some task. But the AI may be misaligned and aim to pursue a conflicting objective. The principal cannot restrict its optio...

Imperfect Recall and AI Delegation, the new working paper by Eric Olav Chen, @alexghersen.bsky.social and Sami Petersen is now available to read here: globalprioritiesinstitute.org/imperfect-re...

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