The goal was to identify promising research directions that can help maximize the future benefits of AI while avoiding pitfalls see this and this list of. San Juan, Puerto Rico When? What can we do now to maximize the chances of reaping the economic bounty from AI while minimizing unwanted side-effects on the labor market? Short talks followed by panel discussion: will it happen, and if so, when? Via engineered solution, whole brain emulation, or other means? We defer until the 4pm session questions regarding what will happen, about whether machines will have goals, about ethics, etc. If an intelligence explosion happens, then what are likely outcomes? What can we do now to maximize the probability of a positive outcome? How can we ensure that autonomous systems do what we want? And who should be held liable if things go wrong? How tackle criminal AI? Back row, from left to right: Tom Mitchell, Seán Ó hÉigeartaigh, Huw Price, Shamil Chandaria, Jaan Tallinn, Stuart Russell, Bill Hibbard, Blaise Agüera y Arcas, Anders Sandberg, Daniel Dewey, Stuart Armstrong, Luke Muehlhauser, Tom Dietterich, Michael Osborne, James Manyika, Ajay Agrawal, Richard Mallah, Nancy Chang, Matthew Putman Other standing, left to right: Marilyn Thompson, Rich Sutton, Alex Wissner-Gross, Sam Teller, Toby Ord, Joscha Bach, Katja Grace, Adrian Weller, Heather Roff-Perkins, Dileep George, Shane Legg, Demis Hassabis, Wendell Wallach, Charina Choi, Ilya Sutskever, Kent Walker, Cecilia Tilli, Nick Bostrom, Erik Brynjolfsson, Steve Crossan, Mustafa Suleyman, Scott Phoenix, Neil Jacobstein, Murray Shanahan, Robin Hanson, Francesca Rossi, Nate Soares, Elon Musk, Andrew McAfee, Bart Selman, Michele Reilly, Aaron VanDevender, Max Tegmark, Margaret Boden, Joshua Greene, Paul Christiano, Eliezer Yudkowsky, David Parkes, Laurent Orseau, JB Straubel, James Moor, Sean Legassick, Mason Hartman, Howie Lempel, David Vladeck, Jacob Steinhardt, Michael Vassar, Ryan Calo, Susan Young, Owain Evans, Riva-Melissa Tez, János Kramár, Geoff Anders, Vernor Vinge, Anthony Aguirre Seated: Sam Harris, Tomaso Poggio, Marin Soljačić, Viktoriya Krakovna, Meia Chita-Tegmark Behind the camera: Anthony Aguirre and also photoshopped in by the human-level intelligence on his left Click.