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The Theoretical Reward Learning Research Agenda: Introduction and Motivation

The AI Alignment Forum

During that time, most of my main research has been motivated by the goal of developing a theoretical foundation for the field of reward learning. The purpose of this sequence is to explain and motivate this research agenda, and to provide an accessible overview over some of my results. Are there things it cannot express?

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Strengthening program evaluation in your nonprofit

ASU Lodestar Center

This call spurred the increasing demand for program evaluation. In your organization, this may look like negative attitudes toward evaluation, poor research designs and collecting data but not using the data. The root problem here is poor evaluation capacity. The root problem here is poor evaluation capacity.

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Six Books About Skills You Need To Succeed in A Networked World

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Paul Schoemaker, founder and executive chairman of Decision Strategies international and research director of Wharton’s Mack Center for technological innovation, shares critical insights on the benefits of making well-chosen mistakes. The model balances content, learning design, and participants. Now You See It by Cathy Davidson.

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How To Think Like An Instructional Designer for Your Nonprofit Trainings

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Designing and delivering a training to a nonprofit audience is not about extreme content delivery or putting together a PowerPoint and answering questions. If you want to get results, you need to think about instructional design and learning theory. And, there is no shortage of learning theories and research.

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Research directions Open Phil wants to fund in technical AI safety

The AI Alignment Forum

Published on February 8, 2025 1:40 AM GMT The Open Philanthropy has just launched a large new Request for Proposals for technical AI safety research. Here we're sharing a reference guide , created as part of that RFP, which describes what projects we'd like to see across 21 research directions in technical AI safety.

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Google at ICLR 2023

Google Research AI blog

Posted by Catherine Armato, Program Manager, Google The Eleventh International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2023) is being held this week as a hybrid event in Kigali, Rwanda. We are proud to be a Diamond Sponsor of ICLR 2023, a premier conference on deep learning, where Google researchers contribute at all levels.

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Learning and Development Trends We Will Keep an Eye on in 2024

Gyrus

It makes learning more open and encourages employees to overcome their hesitations. For example,GyrusAim promotes social learning by allowing employees to interact, share their viewpoints, research, and learning’s, and engage in real-time discussions on particular topics — through discussion forums, user-generated content tools, etc.

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