I'm Ram Rachum, and this is the knowledge base for my research. It has many notes of thoughts that I have that I hope will lead me to interesting results. Feel free to dive in.
**I want to use Machine Learning to understand human social behavior, and to understand how AI can make socially-responsible decisions.**
Specifically, I'd like to show that selfish agents can show [[emergent reciprocity]], and from that, social behavior like forming groups. I hope that this can help us understand how humans can cooperate better, and how we can build safe Artificial General Intelligence.
The field of my research is called [Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-agent_reinforcement_learning).
I'm conducting my research at [the GOLD lab](https://sites.google.com/site/dekelreuth/gold-lab) at Bar-Ilan University, led by [Professor Reuth Mirsky](https://sites.google.com/site/dekelreuth/welcome). I'm a Fellow of [ALTER](https://alter.org.il/), which is generously funding my research.
I'll be happy to get any comments and feedback. Email me at
[email protected]
## Intro to my research
- [[About Ram Rachum]]
- [[The goals of my research]]
- [Talk video](http://r.rachum.com/talk-video) A 50-minute talk in which I explain what I'm trying to achieve with my research. No background in Machine Learning is needed. This is a newer version of the talk I've given internally to an audience of 2,300 Googlers.
- [Talk video (Hebrew)](http://r.rachum.com/talk-video-hebrew)
- [Deck](http://r.rachum.com/talk-deck)
## Going deeper
- [[How my approach is different]] A list of the different ways in which my research effort is different than other researchers'.
## ⭐ Sign up to get updates
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## 📜 My papers
* [[Stubborn|Stubborn: An Environment for Evaluating Stubbornness between Agents with Aligned Incentives]] (2023)
* Poster: [Using Sequential Social Dilemmas to Produce Emergent Aligned AI](https://r.rachum.com/aisic2022-poster) (2022, won outstanding poster at AISIC 2022)
* [[Fruit Slots|Fruit Slots: Experimenting with an Autocurriculum of Implicit Communication in Reinforcement Learning Agents]] (2022)