HackTalk: Isaak Mengesha

​HackTalk: Isaak Mengesha

​Isaak Mengesha is a researcher working on the economics and governance of technological transitions, currently focused on transformative AI. He is a postdoc at the Oxford Martin School's Programme on Forecasting Technological Change, working with the Institute for New Economic Thinking on how technologies diffuse and how to anticipate their large-scale impacts. He completed his PhD at the University of Amsterdam on the structure of economic development and technological transitions, and led research at Arcadia Impact's AI Governance Taskforce on AI incident monitoring and crisis preparedness.

​His talk: “Incident Response Has a Measurement Problem”. What can we faithfully infer from an incident? What should be considered an “incident” given increasing model capabilities? Clarity on these questions decides what is worth building and what actually contributes to AI going well.

​Format: 15-30 min talk + 10-15 min Q&A. Online (Zoom); the Zoom link is shown once you RSVP.

​Part of the AI Incident Response Sprint, September 11-13, online. Co-organized by Apart Research and CeSIA, the French Center for AI Safety.