Intro to Safety Engineering

I’ll be presenting what I learned about safety engineering at the Center for AI Safety’s ML Safety Scholars fellowship. The content will be simple enough for beginners at a high school level to understand.

Some topics covered include:

  • Examples of failures in lots of engineering applications (from bridges to cars to spacecraft to chemical factories and more).

  • Creating quantitative risk equations.

  • Traditional safety engineering analyses like Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA) or Fault Tree Analysis.

  • Novel safety engineering analyses like the Systems-Theoretic Accident Model and Process (STAMP).

This talk is part of a series of talks on technological risks. It’ll be followed by:

The event will be hosted via Zoom. If you’re interested in joining, message @Madhav Malhotra for the link.

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