Mykel Kochenderfer

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AI Safety Fact vs. Fiction | YC Paper Club

Oct 17 · 4 recs

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Waymo mentions product

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"We've been supported very generously by a number of different automotive manufacturers including Waymo, with the aim to make these tools accessible not just to them, but to the entire industry."

From: AI Safety Fact vs. Fiction | YC Paper Club • ▶ 57:20 • Oct 17, 2026

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"Kind of like for CVXPY, the idea of Stephen Boyd's students was to make it really easy to specify mathematical optimization problems."

From: AI Safety Fact vs. Fiction | YC Paper Club • ▶ 38:36 • Oct 17, 2026

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"My student Zach Sunberg, who's now a professor at CU Boulder, developed the POMCPOW algorithm for scalable POMDP planning."

From: AI Safety Fact vs. Fiction | YC Paper Club • ▶ 38:56 • Oct 17, 2026

Swiss cheese model mentions technique

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"We use the Swiss cheese model as an analogy in aviation safety. You have a number of layers of defense... these different layers have different vulnerabilities. Those are the holes in the cheese. And what we want to do is make sure that the holes don't line up."

From: AI Safety Fact vs. Fiction | YC Paper Club • ▶ 1:03:06 • Oct 17, 2026

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