In this conversation with Dr. Anthony Corso, he discusses techniques for building safe and reliable autonomous systems using state of the art machine learning techniques for high-stakes applications such as healthcare, transportation, and critical infrastructure.
View Anthony’s course: https://online.stanford.edu/courses/xaa101-designing-reliable-and-robust-ai-systems
About the speaker:
Anthony is the executive director of the Stanford Center for AI Safety and the associate director of research for the SAIL-Toyota Center. His current research is split between developing verifiably robust autonomy and the using AI algorithms to tackle climate change. Learn more about Anthony: https://anthonylcorso.com/
Chapters
0:00 Introduction
01:38 Dr. Corso intro to reliable AI
03:24 Risks with Autonomous Systems
04:43 How AI Systems Fail
06:13 Can AI be more safe than humans?
07:44 Challenges & Scalability
08:58 Generalizability
11:19 Existential Risks of AI
13:17 AI Ethics
14:39 Applications of AI Systems
15:29 How to build safe AI Systems
21:00 Testing for Rare Events
22:05 Testing & Formal Verification
26:40 What is Robustness?
29:20 Uncertainty Quantification & Fallback Strategies
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