With corporate conflicts (that I recognized the names of):
Yoshua Bengio: Professor of Computer Science, U. Montreal / Mila,
Victoria Krakovna: Research Scientist, Google DeepMind,
Mary Phuong: Research Scientist, Google DeepMind,
Daniela Amodei: President, Anthropic,
Samuel R. Bowman: Associate Professor of Computer Science, NYU and Anthropic,
Helen King: Senior Director of Responsibility & Strategic Advisor to Research, Google DeepMind,
Mustafa Suleyman: CEO, Inflection AI,
Emad Mostaque: CEO, Stability AI,
Ian Goodfellow: Principal Scientist, Google DeepMind,
Kevin Scott: CTO, Microsoft,
Eric Horvitz: Chief Scientific Officer, Microsoft,
Mira Murati: CTO, OpenAI,
James Manyika: SVP, Research, Technology & Society, Google-Alphabet,
Demis Hassabis: CEO, Google DeepMind,
Ilya Sutskever: Co-Founder and Chief Scientist, OpenAI,
Sam Altman: CEO, OpenAI,
Dario Amodei: CEO, Anthropic,
Shane Legg: Chief AGI Scientist and Co-Founder, Google DeepMind,
John Schulman: Co-Founder, OpenAI,
Jaan Tallinn: Co-Founder of Skype,
Adam D'Angelo: CEO, Quora, and board member, OpenAI,
Simon Last: Cofounder & CTO, Notion,
Dustin Moskovitz: Co-founder & CEO, Asana,
Miles Brundage: Head of Policy Research, OpenAI,
Allan Dafoe: AGI Strategy and Governance Team Lead, Google DeepMind,
Jade Leung: Governance Lead, OpenAI,
Jared Kaplan: Co-Founder, Anthropic,
Chris Olah: Co-Founder, Anthropic,
Ryota Kanai: CEO, Araya, Inc.,
Clare Lyle: Research Scientist, Google DeepMind,
Marc Warner: CEO, Faculty,
Noah Fiedel: Director, Research & Engineering, Google DeepMind,
David Silver: Professor of Computer Science, Google DeepMind and UCL,
Lila Ibrahim: COO, Google DeepMind,
Marian Rogers Croak: VP Center for Responsible AI and Human Centered Technology, Google
Without:
Geoffrey Hinton: Emeritus Professor of Computer Science, University of Toronto,
Dawn Song: Professor of Computer Science, UC Berkeley,
Ya-Qin Zhang: Professor and Dean, AIR, Tsinghua University,
Martin Hellman: Professor Emeritus of Electrical Engineering, Stanford,
Yi Zeng: Professor and Director of Brain-inspired Cognitive AI Lab, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences,
Xianyuan Zhan: Assistant Professor, Tsinghua University,
Anca Dragan: Associate Professor of Computer Science, UC Berkeley,
Bill McKibben: Schumann Distinguished Scholar, Middlebury College,
Alan Robock: Distinguished Professor of Climate Science, Rutgers University,
Angela Kane: Vice President, International Institute for Peace, Vienna; former UN High Representative for Disarmament Affairs,
Audrey Tang: Minister of Digital Affairs and Chair of National Institute of Cyber Security,
Stuart Russell: Professor of Computer Science, UC Berkeley,
Andrew Barto: Professor Emeritus, University of Massachusetts,
Jaime Fernández Fisac: Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Princeton University,
Diyi Yang: Assistant Professor, Stanford University,
Gillian Hadfield: Professor, CIFAR AI Chair, University of Toronto, Vector Institute for AI,
Laurence Tribe: University Professor Emeritus, Harvard University,
Pattie Maes: Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Media Lab,
Peter Norvig: Education Fellow, Stanford University,
Atoosa Kasirzadeh: Assistant Professor, University of Edinburgh, Alan Turing Institute,
Erik Brynjolfsson: Professor and Senior Fellow, Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI,
Kersti Kaljulaid: Former President of the Republic of Estonia,
David Haussler: Professor and Director of the Genomics Institute, UC Santa Cruz,
Stephen Luby: Professor of Medicine (Infectious Diseases), Stanford University,
Ju Li: Professor of Nuclear Science and Engineering and Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
David Chalmers: Professor of Philosophy, New York University,
Daniel Dennett: Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, Tufts University,
Peter Railton: Professor of Philosophy at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor,
Sheila McIlraith: Professor of Computer Science, University of Toronto,
Lex Fridman: Research Scientist, MIT,
Sharon Li: Assistant Professor of Computer Science, University of Wisconsin Madison,
Phillip Isola: Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT,
David Krueger: Assistant Professor of Computer Science, University of Cambridge,
Jacob Steinhardt: Assistant Professor of Computer Science, UC Berkeley,
Martin Rees: Professor of Physics, Cambridge University,
He He: Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Data Science, New York University,
David McAllester: Professor of Computer Science, TTIC,
Vincent Conitzer: Professor of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University and University of Oxford,
Bart Selman: Professor of Computer Science, Cornell University,
Michael Wellman: Professor and Chair of Computer Science & Engineering, University of Michigan,
Jinwoo Shin: KAIST Endowed Chair Professor, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology,
Dae-Shik Kim: Professor of Electrical Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST),
Frank Hutter: Professor of Machine Learning, Head of ELLIS Unit, University of Freiburg,
Scott Aaronson: Schlumberger Chair of Computer Science, University of Texas at Austin,
Max Tegmark: Professor, MIT, Center for AI and Fundamental Interactions,
Bruce Schneier: Lecturer, Harvard Kennedy School,
Martha Minow: Professor, Harvard Law School,
Gabriella Blum: Professor of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, Harvard Law,
Kevin Esvelt: Associate Professor of Biology, MIT,
Edward Wittenstein: Executive Director, International Security Studies, Yale Jackson School of Global Affairs, Yale University,
Karina Vold: Assistant Professor, University of Toronto,
Victor Veitch: Assistant Professor of Data Science and Statistics, University of Chicago,
Dylan Hadfield-Menell: Assistant Professor of Computer Science, MIT,
Mengye Ren: Assistant Professor of Computer Science, New York University,
Shiri Dori-Hacohen: Assistant Professor of Computer Science, University of Connecticut,
Jess Whittlestone: Head of AI Policy, Centre for Long-Term Resilience,
Sarah Kreps: John L. Wetherill Professor and Director of the Tech Policy Institute, Cornell University,
Andrew Revkin: Director, Initiative on Communication & Sustainability, Columbia University - Climate School,
Carl Robichaud: Program Officer (Nuclear Weapons), Longview Philanthropy,
Leonid Chindelevitch: Lecturer in Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Imperial College London,
Nicholas Dirks: President, The New York Academy of Sciences,
Tim G. J. Rudner: Assistant Professor and Faculty Fellow, New York University,
Jakob Foerster: Associate Professor of Engineering Science, University of Oxford,
Michael Osborne: Professor of Machine Learning, University of Oxford,
Marina Jirotka: Professor of Human Centred Computing, University of Oxford
So the most “notable” AI scientists on this list have clear corporate conflicts. Some are more subtle:
> Geoffrey Hinton: Emeritus Professor of Computer Science, University of Toronto,
He’s affiliated with Vector (as well as some of the other Canadians on this list) and was at Google until very recently (unsure if he retained equity which would require disclosure in academia).
Hence my interest in disclosures as the conflicts are not always obvious.
How is saying that they should have disclosed a conflict that they did not disclose not accusatory? If that's the case, the accusation is entirely justified and should be surfaced! The other signatories would certainly want to know if they were signing in good faith when others weren't. This is what I need interns for.
I never said “they should have disclosed a conflict they did not disclose.”
Disclosures are absent from this initiative, some signatories have self-identified their affiliation by their own volition and even for those it is not in the context of a conflict disclosure.
There is no “signatories have no relevant disclosures” statement for those who did not for the omission to be malfeasance and pointing out the absence of a disclosure statement is not accusatory of the individuals, rather that the initiative is not transparent about potential conflicts.
Once again, it is standard practice in academia to make a disclosure statement if lecturing or publishing. While it is not mandatory for initiatives calling for regulation it would be nice to have.
Yoshua Bengio: Professor of Computer Science, U. Montreal / Mila, Victoria Krakovna: Research Scientist, Google DeepMind, Mary Phuong: Research Scientist, Google DeepMind, Daniela Amodei: President, Anthropic, Samuel R. Bowman: Associate Professor of Computer Science, NYU and Anthropic, Helen King: Senior Director of Responsibility & Strategic Advisor to Research, Google DeepMind, Mustafa Suleyman: CEO, Inflection AI, Emad Mostaque: CEO, Stability AI, Ian Goodfellow: Principal Scientist, Google DeepMind, Kevin Scott: CTO, Microsoft, Eric Horvitz: Chief Scientific Officer, Microsoft, Mira Murati: CTO, OpenAI, James Manyika: SVP, Research, Technology & Society, Google-Alphabet, Demis Hassabis: CEO, Google DeepMind, Ilya Sutskever: Co-Founder and Chief Scientist, OpenAI, Sam Altman: CEO, OpenAI, Dario Amodei: CEO, Anthropic, Shane Legg: Chief AGI Scientist and Co-Founder, Google DeepMind, John Schulman: Co-Founder, OpenAI, Jaan Tallinn: Co-Founder of Skype, Adam D'Angelo: CEO, Quora, and board member, OpenAI, Simon Last: Cofounder & CTO, Notion, Dustin Moskovitz: Co-founder & CEO, Asana, Miles Brundage: Head of Policy Research, OpenAI, Allan Dafoe: AGI Strategy and Governance Team Lead, Google DeepMind, Jade Leung: Governance Lead, OpenAI, Jared Kaplan: Co-Founder, Anthropic, Chris Olah: Co-Founder, Anthropic, Ryota Kanai: CEO, Araya, Inc., Clare Lyle: Research Scientist, Google DeepMind, Marc Warner: CEO, Faculty, Noah Fiedel: Director, Research & Engineering, Google DeepMind, David Silver: Professor of Computer Science, Google DeepMind and UCL, Lila Ibrahim: COO, Google DeepMind, Marian Rogers Croak: VP Center for Responsible AI and Human Centered Technology, Google
Without:
Geoffrey Hinton: Emeritus Professor of Computer Science, University of Toronto, Dawn Song: Professor of Computer Science, UC Berkeley, Ya-Qin Zhang: Professor and Dean, AIR, Tsinghua University, Martin Hellman: Professor Emeritus of Electrical Engineering, Stanford, Yi Zeng: Professor and Director of Brain-inspired Cognitive AI Lab, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xianyuan Zhan: Assistant Professor, Tsinghua University, Anca Dragan: Associate Professor of Computer Science, UC Berkeley, Bill McKibben: Schumann Distinguished Scholar, Middlebury College, Alan Robock: Distinguished Professor of Climate Science, Rutgers University, Angela Kane: Vice President, International Institute for Peace, Vienna; former UN High Representative for Disarmament Affairs, Audrey Tang: Minister of Digital Affairs and Chair of National Institute of Cyber Security, Stuart Russell: Professor of Computer Science, UC Berkeley, Andrew Barto: Professor Emeritus, University of Massachusetts, Jaime Fernández Fisac: Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Princeton University, Diyi Yang: Assistant Professor, Stanford University, Gillian Hadfield: Professor, CIFAR AI Chair, University of Toronto, Vector Institute for AI, Laurence Tribe: University Professor Emeritus, Harvard University, Pattie Maes: Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Media Lab, Peter Norvig: Education Fellow, Stanford University, Atoosa Kasirzadeh: Assistant Professor, University of Edinburgh, Alan Turing Institute, Erik Brynjolfsson: Professor and Senior Fellow, Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI, Kersti Kaljulaid: Former President of the Republic of Estonia, David Haussler: Professor and Director of the Genomics Institute, UC Santa Cruz, Stephen Luby: Professor of Medicine (Infectious Diseases), Stanford University, Ju Li: Professor of Nuclear Science and Engineering and Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, David Chalmers: Professor of Philosophy, New York University, Daniel Dennett: Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, Tufts University, Peter Railton: Professor of Philosophy at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Sheila McIlraith: Professor of Computer Science, University of Toronto, Lex Fridman: Research Scientist, MIT, Sharon Li: Assistant Professor of Computer Science, University of Wisconsin Madison, Phillip Isola: Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT, David Krueger: Assistant Professor of Computer Science, University of Cambridge, Jacob Steinhardt: Assistant Professor of Computer Science, UC Berkeley, Martin Rees: Professor of Physics, Cambridge University, He He: Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Data Science, New York University, David McAllester: Professor of Computer Science, TTIC, Vincent Conitzer: Professor of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University and University of Oxford, Bart Selman: Professor of Computer Science, Cornell University, Michael Wellman: Professor and Chair of Computer Science & Engineering, University of Michigan, Jinwoo Shin: KAIST Endowed Chair Professor, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Dae-Shik Kim: Professor of Electrical Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Frank Hutter: Professor of Machine Learning, Head of ELLIS Unit, University of Freiburg, Scott Aaronson: Schlumberger Chair of Computer Science, University of Texas at Austin, Max Tegmark: Professor, MIT, Center for AI and Fundamental Interactions, Bruce Schneier: Lecturer, Harvard Kennedy School, Martha Minow: Professor, Harvard Law School, Gabriella Blum: Professor of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, Harvard Law, Kevin Esvelt: Associate Professor of Biology, MIT, Edward Wittenstein: Executive Director, International Security Studies, Yale Jackson School of Global Affairs, Yale University, Karina Vold: Assistant Professor, University of Toronto, Victor Veitch: Assistant Professor of Data Science and Statistics, University of Chicago, Dylan Hadfield-Menell: Assistant Professor of Computer Science, MIT, Mengye Ren: Assistant Professor of Computer Science, New York University, Shiri Dori-Hacohen: Assistant Professor of Computer Science, University of Connecticut, Jess Whittlestone: Head of AI Policy, Centre for Long-Term Resilience, Sarah Kreps: John L. Wetherill Professor and Director of the Tech Policy Institute, Cornell University, Andrew Revkin: Director, Initiative on Communication & Sustainability, Columbia University - Climate School, Carl Robichaud: Program Officer (Nuclear Weapons), Longview Philanthropy, Leonid Chindelevitch: Lecturer in Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Imperial College London, Nicholas Dirks: President, The New York Academy of Sciences, Tim G. J. Rudner: Assistant Professor and Faculty Fellow, New York University, Jakob Foerster: Associate Professor of Engineering Science, University of Oxford, Michael Osborne: Professor of Machine Learning, University of Oxford, Marina Jirotka: Professor of Human Centred Computing, University of Oxford