Talks

2023

Panel: Principles of Responsible and Open Foundation Models
Sep 21, 2023 9:00 AM
Invited Speaker
Workshop on Responsible and Open Foundation Models
Panel: Generative AI, Art and Ownership
Sep 20, 2023 8:30 AM
Invited Panelist
International Strategy Forum Panel on Generative AI, Art and Ownership
Self-Destructing Models: Increasing the Costs of Harmful Dual Uses in Foundation Models
Aug 8, 2023 2:30 PM
Contributed Talk AI Safety
AAAI/ACM Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Ethics, and Society (AIES)
Panel: Liability Considerations in Enterprise Use of Generative AI
Jun 27, 2023 9:00 AM
Invited Speaker Panel
Copyright Society CLE
The Benefits and Challenges of AI for Law and Government
May 29, 2023 7:00 PM
Invited Talk Law and AI
CS+Social Good@Stanford
Foundation Models and Fair Use
May 24, 2023 10:00 AM
Invited Speaker
Google Tech Talks: Differential Privacy for ML Seminar
AI in the Invention Process
May 8, 2023 11:10 AM
Invited Talk Law and AI
USPTO AI Inventorship Listening Session - West Coast
Aligning Machine Learning, Law, and Policy for Responsible Real-World Deployments
Apr 18, 2023 4:30 PM
Invited Talk Law and AI
Princeton Center for Information Technology Policy Lecture
Aligning Machine Learning, Law, and Policy for Responsible Real-World Deployments
Feb 6, 2023 10:00 AM
Invited Talk Law and AI
CS Seminar @ Northwestern
Aligning Machine Learning, Law, and Policy for Responsible Real-World Deployments
Jan 25, 2023 4:30 PM
Invited Talk Law and AI
Info Sci Colloquium @ Cornell
Aligning Machine Learning, Law, and Policy for Responsible Real-World Deployments
Jan 23, 2023 10:30 AM
Invited Talk Law and AI
Seminar @ Cornell Tech

2022

Reinforcement Learning and Public Policy
Oct 18, 2022 2:50 PM
Invited Talk Law, Policy, and AI
Stanford CS332: Advanced Survey of Reinforcement Learning
Pile of Law: Learning Responsible Data Filtering from the Law and a 256GB Open-Source Legal Dataset
Aug 23, 2022 10:00 AM
Invited Talk Law and AI
York University Refugee Law Lab Seminar
Panel: Environmental AI Technology & ESG Regulations
Jul 25, 2022 10:50 AM
Invited Speaker Panel
IEEE/HAI Workshop on Advancing Technology for a Sustainable Planet
Video Press (TechTarget) Press (VentureBeat)
Safety Considerations and Broader Implications for Governmental Uses of AI
Jul 12, 2022 2:30 PM
Invited Talk Law and AI
Stanford AI Safety, Centaur, and Data Science Affiliates Program Annual Meeting: AI Safety Workshop
Slides Video Press (Forbes)
Integrating Reward Maximization and Population Estimation: Sequential Decision-Making for Internal Revenue Service Audit Selection
Jun 16, 2022 9:30 AM
Contributed Talk Law and AI
12th Annual IRS/TPC Joint Research Conference on Tax Administration
Slides Video Press (Reuters)
Reinforcement Learning and Public Policy
Feb 17, 2022 1:30 PM
Invited Talk Law, Policy, and AI
ReWork Deep Reinforcement Learning Summit 2022
Slides

2021

Vulnerabilities in Discovery Tech
Dec 15, 2021 11:10 AM
Invited Talk Law and AI
IEEE Big Data Workshop on Applications of Artificial Intelligence in the Legal Industry
Slides
Machine Learning Carbon Footprints
Oct 28, 2021 4:20 PM
Invited Talk Expert Workshop
International Risk Governance Center (IRGC): Expert Workshop on Ensuring the environmental sustainability of emerging technology
Slides

2020

How blockers can turn into a paper: A retrospective on 'Towards The Systematic Reporting of the Energy and Carbon Footprints of Machine Learning'
Jul 17, 2020 4:00 PM
Invited Talk Metaresearch
ML Retrospectives Workshop at ICML 2020
Slides Video

2019

Separating Value Functions Across Time-scales
Aug 14, 2019 10:00 AM
Invited Talk
Center for Human Compatible Artificial Intelligence Seminar @ UC Berkeley
Slides
Panel: What Are the Key Obstacles Preventing the Progression and Application of Deep RL in Industry?
Jun 20, 2019 4:20 PM
Invited Speaker Panel
ReWork Deep Reinforcement Learning Summit 2019
Video

2018

Distilling Information from a Flood: A Possibility for the Use of Meta-Analysis and Systematic Review in Machine Learning Research
Dec 7, 2018 2:40 PM
Contributed Talk Metaresearch
Critiquing and Correcting Trends in Machine Learning Workshop at NeurIPS 2018
Video
Benchmarking and Evaluation in Inverse Reinforcement Learning
Jun 29, 2018 3:00 PM
Invited Talk Reproducibility Metaresearch
New Benchmarks, Metrics, and Competitions for Robotic Learning Workshop (RSS 2018)
Slides
Reproducibility and Replicability in Deep Reinforcement Learning (and Other Deep Learning Methods)
Jun 5, 2018 10:50 AM
Invited Talk Reproducibility Metaresearch
Statistical Society of Canada (SSC) Annual Meeting 2018
Slides
Ethical Challenges in Data-Driven Dialogue Systems
Feb 3, 2018 10:15 AM
Contributed Talk Metaresearch Ethics
AAAI/ACM Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Ethics, and Society (AIES)
Slides

2017

Show Me the Data! On the Reproducibility of Policy Gradient Methods for Continuous Control
Jul 4, 2017 4:30 PM
Invited Talk Reproducibility Metaresearch
Reinforcement Learning Summer School (RLSS) 2017
Code Slides
Practical Tutorial on Policy Gradients for Continuous Control
Jul 3, 2017 4:30 PM
Invited Talk Tutorial
Reinforcement Learning Summer School (RLSS) 2017
Code Slides