UCLA AI/AI Safety Forecasting Workshop + (tentative) DeepSeek r1 Q and A

​This is an interactive 1.5-hour workshop, free and open to the public, focused on AI forecasting and safety awareness. It is done in conjunction with AI Safety at UCLA and Bruins AI.

​Our goal is to help participants understand the urgency of AI safety through interactive demonstrations and group exercises aimed at helping people forecast what might be coming over the next year or two with AI and AI safety.

​The first portion of this workshop will be a set of virtual talks and demonstrations of current AI capabilities.

​The second portion of this workshop will be more detailed forecasting exercises, where we’ll use prediction markets to calibrate expectations and help forecast what kinds of AI developments might come and when.

​Finally there is a tentative (depending on interest), optional final section where we will have a quick Q and A session about the DeepSeek r1 paper and salient details about the model for those who are more technically inclined. This is not finalized as part of the session. If it is not included, we will provide slides and review materials for participants to take home describing the general outline of DeepSeek r1.