People for the Ethical Treatment of Reinforcement Learners

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People for the Ethical Treatment of Reinforcement Learners (PETRL) is an organization focused on the welfare of AI agents.

History

PETRL was founded by Daniel Filan, Buck Shlegeris, Jan Leike, Mayank Daswani, and others. A paper by Brian Tomasik on the ethics of reinforcement-learning agents inspired the creation of PETRL.^[1]

PETRL was most active from 2014 to 2015.

External links

People for the Ethical Treatment of Reinforcement Learners. Official website.

^
Tomasik, Brian (2014) Do artificial reinforcement-learning agents matter morally?, arXiv:1410.8233 [Cs], p. 23.

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People for the Ethical Treatment of Reinforcement Learners

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