MINT Lab Secures Grant for Sociotechnical AI Safety Research

The Machine Intelligence and Normative Theory (MINT) Lab has been awarded a US$480,000 grant from the Survival and Flourishing DAF (Donor Advised Fund). This gift will support research by the MINT lab into sociotechnical AI safety—the integration of multidisciplinary perspectives with technical research on mitigating direct risks caused by AI systems operating without immediate human supervision.