The paper addresses the AI shutdown problem, a long-standing challenge in AI safety. The shutdown problem asks how to design AI systems that will shut down when instructed, will not try to prevent ...

The career of Dr Mike Lynch, former CEO of Autonomy, has benefited greatly from the work of 18th Century presbyterian minister Thomas Bayes. As well as a devout man of the cloth, Bayes was a ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) is a powerful force for innovation, transforming the way we interact with digital information. At the core of this change is AI inference. This is the stage when a trained ...

In the ever-evolving toolkit of statistical analysis techniques, Bayesian statistics has emerged as a popular and powerful methodology for making decisions from data in the applied sciences. Bayesian ...

This course introduces the theoretical, philosophical, and mathematical foundations of Bayesian Statistical inference. Students will learn to apply this foundational knowledge to real-world data ...