The LISA Team consists of James Fox, Mike Brozowski, Joe Murray, Nina Wolff-Ingham, Ryan Kidd, and Christian Smith.

LISA's Advisory Board consists of Henry Sleight, Jessica Rumbelow, Marius Hobbhahn, Jamie Bernardi, and Callum McDougall.

Everyone has contributed significantly to the founding of LISA, believes in its mission & vision, and assisted with writing this post.

TL;DR: The London Initiative for Safe AI (LISA) is a new AI Safety research centre. Our mission is to improve the safety of advanced AI systems by supporting and empowering individual researchers and small organisations. We opened in September 2023, and our office space currently hosts several research organisations and upskilling programmes, including Apollo Research, Leap Labs, MATS extension, ARENA, and BlueDot Impact, as well as many individual and externally affiliated researchers.

LISA is open to different types of membership applications from other AI safety researchers and organisations.

(Affiliate) members [...]

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Outline:

(05:43) The Urgency

(09:38) Our Vision

(11:21) Our Track Record

(12:55) Our Plans

(15:03) The supported individual researchers and organisations might underperform expectations.

(16:44) We might not be able to attract and retain top potential AI safety researchers.

(18:18) Given the UK Government's AI Safety Institute and other initiatives, we might be redundant.

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First published:
February 2nd, 2024

Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/P7dbHRYfwykEJiDYX/announcing-the-london-initiative-for-safe-ai-lisa

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“Announcing the London Initiative for Safe AI (LISA)” by James Fox, mike_safeAI, Ryan Kidd

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