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Max Kleiman-Weiner
17 January 2025

20 February: ECC Online Lecture

Prof. Max Kleiman-Weiner: Computational morality

Morality: What are moral values, how do we learn them so quickly, and why do we generalize them so widely? Where do our moral values come from and where are they going? Can we build moral machines that are aligned to our values and autonomy?

Prof. Max Kleiman-Weiner is is an Assistant Professor at the University of Washington in the Foster School of Business and Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science. He was previously a fellow at Harvard in the Data Science Institute and Center for Research on Computation and Society (CRCS). He completed a PhD in Computational Cognitive Science at MIT, advised by Josh Tenenbaum, where he was an NSF and Hertz Foundation Fellow. His thesis won the Robert J. Glushko Prize for Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation in Cognitive Science. He has received best paper awards at COGSCI and RLDM for models of human cooperation and the William James Award at SPP for computational work on moral learning. Max Kleiman-Weiner is a Co-Founder of Common Sense Machines and was previously Co-Founder and Chief Scientist of Diffeo, a collaborative machine intelligence startup acquired by Salesforce in 2019. Before all that, he was a Fulbright Fellow in Beijing, earned an MSc in Statistics as a Marshall Scholar at Oxford, and did his undergraduate work at Stanford as a Goldwater Scholar.

Date: Thursday, 20 February
Location: Zoom (access here)
Time: 6:00 PM UK / 10 AM PT