Center for Algorithms, Data, and Market Design at Yale (CADMY) Awarded Major AI Safety Grants

Professors from the Center for Algorithms, Data, and Market Design at Yale (CADMY) are among the first cohort to be awarded grants from a global funding program coordinated by the UK's AI Security Institute.

Yale economist Dirk Bergemann, director of CADMY, was awarded a lead grant from the institution for work with Stephen Morris, visiting professor from MIT. Their project "aims to build a more systematic framework to balance capability and safety, as well as to design institutions and rules of the game around deployed AI systems."

A second group of Yale professors, including CADMY's co-director Yang Cai, were also awarded a grant from AISI. The group includes Yale SOM professor Nima Haghpanah, Yale Engineering professor and research director for CADMY Nicole Immorlica, Yale economist Elliot Liponowski and University of Michigan professor Doron Ravid. The groups plans to "study how a user can productively interact with an AI agent who may be misinformed or may have conflicting interests with the user."

CADMY is a joint effort across several departments at Yale, including Economics, Statistics and Data Science, Computer Science, School of Management, the Cowles Foundation and the Institute for Foundations of Data Science. The initiative, which was launched in 2022, supports research at the intersection of these disciplines.

The AI Security Institute was established by the UK government's Department for Science, Innovation and Technology. The funding program, called The Alignment Project, aims to support "theoretical and empirical work on developing robust alignment, oversight, and monitoring techniques."