# NeuroAI for AI safety

- Speakers: [Patrick Mineault](https://streameth.org/speakers/patrick-mineault)
- Channel: [Devcon 7 SEA](https://streameth.org/devcon_7_sea)
- Date: 2024-11-14
- Duration: 07:56
- Watch: https://streameth.org/watch/673578c69dbb7a90e1b6afc1

## Description

Powerful unaligned AIs pose risks to humans. This talk will explore how neuroscience-inspired AI–or NeuroAI–can lead to a deeper understanding of the human brain, and help us build more secure AI. I’ll connect these ideas to d/acc, arguing that neuroAI can play an enabling role in creating technologies that are inherently defense-favoring and promote human well-being.

## About the speakers

### Patrick Mineault

I’m a NeuroAI researcher at the Amaranth Foundation, which funds ambitious research in neuroscience. I focus on the intersection of neuroscience and AI safety. I did my B.Sc. in Math and Physics and a PhD in neuroscience at McGill. Previously, I was a software engineer at Google,  a research scientist in brain-computer interfaces at Meta, and a machine learning researcher at Mila.