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Roland Pihlakas

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An independent AI safety researcher. Software engineer specialising in combinatorial optimisation. I studied psychology, have 20 years of experience in modelling natural intelligence and in designing various AI algorithms.

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I hold an MSc in psychology. I work as an AI software engineer specialising in combinatorial optimisation, machine learning, graph search, natural language processing, and data compression. I have been researching and working on multi-objective value problems for almost 20 years, have followed discussions on AI Safety since 2006 and have participated more actively since about 2017. My thesis topic was in cognitive psychology, about computational modelling of innate learning and planning mechanisms, which eventually form a foundation for culturally acquired language-based thought processes. With co-authors I have published a research paper about utility functions for risk-averse multi-objective decision making, which are relevant for balancing the plurality of human values. Later, with support from Foresight Institute’s grant in autumn 2023 - spring 2024 I created a suite of biologically and economically aligned multi-objective multi-agent AI safety benchmarks, which was published in Arxiv at the end of September 2024.