Vienna Alignment Workshop 2024: 129 experts discuss AI alignment and safety

On July 21, 2024, the Vienna Alignment Workshop was held on the eve of ICML, with 129 participants from academia, industry, government, and nonprofit organizations discussing Guaranteed Safe AI, robustness, interpretability, governance, dangerous capability evaluation, and scalable oversight. Stuart Russell argued for ensuring AI safety from the design stage, while Nicholas Carlini warned that alignment research should learn from the limited progress of adversarial machine learning over a decade.