What is Dylan Hadfield-Menell's thesis on?

Hadfield-Menell's PhD thesis argues three main claims (paraphrased):

• Outer alignment failures are a problem.

• We can mitigate this problem by adding uncertainty.

• We can model this as Cooperative Inverse Reinforcement Learning (CIRL).

Thus, his motivations seem to be modeling AGI coming in some multi-agent form, and also being heavily connected with human operators.

Some recent alignment-relevant papers that he has published include:

• Work on instantiating norms into AIs to incentivize deference to humans

• Theoretically formulating the principal-agent problem