Jeff Clune
@jeffclune.com
Professor, Computer Science, University of British Columbia. CIFAR AI Chair, Vector Institute. Senior Advisor, DeepMind. ML, AI, deep RL, deep learning, AI-Generating Algorithms (AI-GAs), open-endedness.
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UBC Computer Science invites applications for up to two full-time tenure-track positions with the following priority areas: visualization, robotics, reinforcement learning, data management, and data mining. Applications are due Wed Dec 10, 2025. Learn more: www.cs.ubc.ca/our-departme...
October 23, 2025 at 12:43 AM
UBC Computer Science invites applications for up to two full-time tenure-track positions with the following priority areas: visualization, robotics, reinforcement learning, data management, and data mining. Applications are due Wed Dec 10, 2025. Learn more: www.cs.ubc.ca/our-departme...
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AI is evolving too quickly for an annual report to suffice. To help policymakers keep pace, we're introducing the first Key Update to the International AI Safety Report. 🧵⬇️
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October 15, 2025 at 10:49 AM
AI is evolving too quickly for an annual report to suffice. To help policymakers keep pace, we're introducing the first Key Update to the International AI Safety Report. 🧵⬇️
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For all the details, please give the paper a read!
Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2507.06466
Infinite thanks to @jeffclune.com and @cong-ml.bsky.social for all their guidance!
Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2507.06466
Infinite thanks to @jeffclune.com and @cong-ml.bsky.social for all their guidance!
Foundation Model Self-Play: Open-Ended Strategy Innovation via Foundation Models
Multi-agent interactions have long fueled innovation, from natural predator-prey dynamics to the space race. Self-play (SP) algorithms try to harness these dynamics by pitting agents against ever-impr...
arxiv.org
July 10, 2025 at 6:17 PM
For all the details, please give the paper a read!
Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2507.06466
Infinite thanks to @jeffclune.com and @cong-ml.bsky.social for all their guidance!
Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2507.06466
Infinite thanks to @jeffclune.com and @cong-ml.bsky.social for all their guidance!
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Read this article on how AI is contributing to its own development, featuring UBC Computer Science Professor @jeffclune.com!
The possibility of self-improvement distinguishes AI from other revolutionary technologies. But LLMs can optimize the computer chips they run on, train other LLMs cheaply and efficiently, and perhaps even come up with original ideas for AI research. And they’ve already made progress. trib.al/YbuLO16
Five ways that AI is learning to improve itself
From coding to hardware, LLMs are speeding up research progress in artificial intelligence. It could be the most important trend in AI today.
trib.al
August 7, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Read this article on how AI is contributing to its own development, featuring UBC Computer Science Professor @jeffclune.com!
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💡The fall SRI Seminar Series kicks off on Wednesday with
@jeffclune.com (UBC / Vector / DeepMind):
“Open-ended and AI-generating algorithms in the era of foundation models”
Wed 12:30 ET
Free, online🔗https://srinstitute.utoronto.ca/events-archive/seminar-2025-jeff-clune-2
@jeffclune.com (UBC / Vector / DeepMind):
“Open-ended and AI-generating algorithms in the era of foundation models”
Wed 12:30 ET
Free, online🔗https://srinstitute.utoronto.ca/events-archive/seminar-2025-jeff-clune-2
September 15, 2025 at 5:06 PM
💡The fall SRI Seminar Series kicks off on Wednesday with
@jeffclune.com (UBC / Vector / DeepMind):
“Open-ended and AI-generating algorithms in the era of foundation models”
Wed 12:30 ET
Free, online🔗https://srinstitute.utoronto.ca/events-archive/seminar-2025-jeff-clune-2
@jeffclune.com (UBC / Vector / DeepMind):
“Open-ended and AI-generating algorithms in the era of foundation models”
Wed 12:30 ET
Free, online🔗https://srinstitute.utoronto.ca/events-archive/seminar-2025-jeff-clune-2
Thrilled to introduce Foundation Model Self-Play, led by
Aaron Dharna. FMSPs combine the intelligence & code generation of foundation models with the curriculum of self-play & principles of open-endedness to explore diverse strategies in multi-agent games. Thread x.com/jeffclune/st...
Aaron Dharna. FMSPs combine the intelligence & code generation of foundation models with the curriculum of self-play & principles of open-endedness to explore diverse strategies in multi-agent games. Thread x.com/jeffclune/st...
Jeff Clune on X: "Thrilled to introduce Foundation Model Self-Play, led by @_aadharna. FMSPs combine the intelligence & code generation of foundation models with the curriculum of self-play & principles of open-endedness to explore diverse strategies in multi-agent games, like the one below 🧵👇 https://t.co/GqTWM5P3CC" / X
Thrilled to introduce Foundation Model Self-Play, led by @_aadharna. FMSPs combine the intelligence & code generation of foundation models with the curriculum of self-play & principles of open-endedness to explore diverse strategies in multi-agent games, like the one below 🧵👇 https://t.co/GqTWM5P3CC
x.com
July 10, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Thrilled to introduce Foundation Model Self-Play, led by
Aaron Dharna. FMSPs combine the intelligence & code generation of foundation models with the curriculum of self-play & principles of open-endedness to explore diverse strategies in multi-agent games. Thread x.com/jeffclune/st...
Aaron Dharna. FMSPs combine the intelligence & code generation of foundation models with the curriculum of self-play & principles of open-endedness to explore diverse strategies in multi-agent games. Thread x.com/jeffclune/st...
A great summary of the latest in open-endedness research! The next big wave in AI? 🤔📈🚀
richardcsuwandi.github.io/blog/2025/op...
richardcsuwandi.github.io/blog/2025/op...
The future of AI is open-ended | Richard Cornelius Suwandi
Embracing open-endedness in the pursuit of creative AI
richardcsuwandi.github.io
June 27, 2025 at 5:21 PM
A great summary of the latest in open-endedness research! The next big wave in AI? 🤔📈🚀
richardcsuwandi.github.io/blog/2025/op...
richardcsuwandi.github.io/blog/2025/op...
How it felt to know AGI is coming soon long before the world was paying attention.
officechai.com/ai/building-...
officechai.com/ai/building-...
Building AI Felt Like Watching An Alien Intelligence Arrive: Early OpenAI Researcher
OpenAI had stunned the world by releasing ChatGPT in November 2022, but it turns out that the researchers working on the technology were even more stunned at what they'd developed. Jeff Clune, a fo...
officechai.com
June 23, 2025 at 6:04 PM
How it felt to know AGI is coming soon long before the world was paying attention.
officechai.com/ai/building-...
officechai.com/ai/building-...
Very nice summary of the Darwin Gödel Machine in Fortune, and an interesting tie-in to Sam's excellent recent blog post.
fortune.com/2025/06/19/o...
fortune.com/2025/06/19/o...
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says "we are past the event horizon." Is he right?
Researchers from Sakana AI and Google DeepMind have created AI that can improve its own code.
fortune.com
June 20, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Very nice summary of the Darwin Gödel Machine in Fortune, and an interesting tie-in to Sam's excellent recent blog post.
fortune.com/2025/06/19/o...
fortune.com/2025/06/19/o...
I am excited to be a part of @Yoshua_Bengio's new non-profit focused on AI Safety and Existential Risk, joining the great team of Scientific Advisors. This is a critically important mission for humanity.
Today marks a big milestone for me. I'm launching @law-zero.bsky.social, a nonprofit focusing on a new safe-by-design approach to AI that could both accelerate scientific discovery and provide a safeguard against the dangers of agentic AI.
Every frontier AI system should be grounded in a core commitment: to protect human joy and endeavour. Today, we launch LawZero, a nonprofit dedicated to advancing safe-by-design AI. lawzero.org
June 3, 2025 at 3:08 PM
I am excited to be a part of @Yoshua_Bengio's new non-profit focused on AI Safety and Existential Risk, joining the great team of Scientific Advisors. This is a critically important mission for humanity.
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It's Friday Night, which means Trump's weekly science bloodbath.
BUT WHY DOES HE DO THIS ON FRIDAY NIGHTS?
Simple: He's a coward!
Americans overwhelmingly support science! His attack on science is unpopular and he wants to bury it in the news cycle.
Not on our watch.
#StandUpForScience
BUT WHY DOES HE DO THIS ON FRIDAY NIGHTS?
Simple: He's a coward!
Americans overwhelmingly support science! His attack on science is unpopular and he wants to bury it in the news cycle.
Not on our watch.
#StandUpForScience
May 31, 2025 at 12:12 AM
It's Friday Night, which means Trump's weekly science bloodbath.
BUT WHY DOES HE DO THIS ON FRIDAY NIGHTS?
Simple: He's a coward!
Americans overwhelmingly support science! His attack on science is unpopular and he wants to bury it in the news cycle.
Not on our watch.
#StandUpForScience
BUT WHY DOES HE DO THIS ON FRIDAY NIGHTS?
Simple: He's a coward!
Americans overwhelmingly support science! His attack on science is unpopular and he wants to bury it in the news cycle.
Not on our watch.
#StandUpForScience
Excited to introduce the Darwin Gödel Machine: Open-Ended Evolution of Self-Improving Agents. We harness the power of open-ended algorithms to search for agentic systems that get better at coding, including improving their own code.
Introducing The Darwin Gödel Machine
sakana.ai/dgm
The Darwin Gödel Machine is a self-improving agent that can modify its own code. Inspired by evolution, we maintain an expanding lineage of agent variants, allowing for open-ended exploration of the vast design space of such self-improving agents.
sakana.ai/dgm
The Darwin Gödel Machine is a self-improving agent that can modify its own code. Inspired by evolution, we maintain an expanding lineage of agent variants, allowing for open-ended exploration of the vast design space of such self-improving agents.
May 30, 2025 at 3:27 AM
Excited to introduce the Darwin Gödel Machine: Open-Ended Evolution of Self-Improving Agents. We harness the power of open-ended algorithms to search for agentic systems that get better at coding, including improving their own code.
Is there a cancer at the heart of modern AI, lurking just beneath the surface of its dazzling performance? Our research suggests maybe, but also shows elegant solutions are possible (though how to get them at scale remains a mystery). Check out the eye-opening, riveting paper below!
Could a major opportunity to improve representation in deep learning be hiding in plain sight? Check out our new position paper: Questioning Representational Optimism in Deep Learning: The Fractured Entangled Representation Hypothesis.
Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2505.11581
Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2505.11581
May 20, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Is there a cancer at the heart of modern AI, lurking just beneath the surface of its dazzling performance? Our research suggests maybe, but also shows elegant solutions are possible (though how to get them at scale remains a mystery). Check out the eye-opening, riveting paper below!
Why do we tolerate loud motorcycles? I can't walk around with a crazy loud speaker, yet we allow people to have (and companies to sell) insanely loud machines that torture everyone else. They can be made quiet or silent...we should start heavily taxing and fining noise polluting machines.
May 16, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Why do we tolerate loud motorcycles? I can't walk around with a crazy loud speaker, yet we allow people to have (and companies to sell) insanely loud machines that torture everyone else. They can be made quiet or silent...we should start heavily taxing and fining noise polluting machines.
Very cool work! Fun to see an algorithm inspired by MAP-Elites help advance numerous open problems in math, computer science, AND improve Google's production infrastructure (data centers, TPU design, and AI training)! (Paraphrasing their paper and tweet).
AlphaEvolve finds new algorithms that outperform the best human-made solutions for data center management, chip design and more.
Google DeepMind’s new AI uses large language models to crack real-world problems
AlphaEvolve finds new algorithms that outperform the best human-made solutions for data center management, chip design and more.
www.technologyreview.com
May 14, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Very cool work! Fun to see an algorithm inspired by MAP-Elites help advance numerous open problems in math, computer science, AND improve Google's production infrastructure (data centers, TPU design, and AI training)! (Paraphrasing their paper and tweet).
I greatly enjoyed “The Spectrum of AI Risks” panel at the Singapore Conference on AI. Thanks @teganmaharaj.bsky.social for great moderating, Max Tegmark for the invitation, and the organizers and other panelists for a great event!
PS. Do I really have sad resting panel face? 😐
PS. Do I really have sad resting panel face? 😐
April 29, 2025 at 1:17 PM
I greatly enjoyed “The Spectrum of AI Risks” panel at the Singapore Conference on AI. Thanks @teganmaharaj.bsky.social for great moderating, Max Tegmark for the invitation, and the organizers and other panelists for a great event!
PS. Do I really have sad resting panel face? 😐
PS. Do I really have sad resting panel face? 😐
I'm giving a talk at 11:30 today in the #ICLR World Models workshop. "Open-ended Agent Learning in the Era of Foundation Models and Foundation World Models." Drop by if you are interested! sites.google.com/view/worldmo...
ICLR 2025 Workshop World Models - Schedule & Speaker
Schedule (Tentative)
sites.google.com
April 28, 2025 at 1:32 AM
I'm giving a talk at 11:30 today in the #ICLR World Models workshop. "Open-ended Agent Learning in the Era of Foundation Models and Foundation World Models." Drop by if you are interested! sites.google.com/view/worldmo...
Tom @rockt.ai did a great job in his #ICLR2025 keynote on open-endedness of explaining the ideas we are all so passionate about. A huge thanks for the kind words and for featuring our work, including Jenny Zhang's OMNI. cc @kennethstanley.bsky.social @joelbot3000.bsky.social
April 27, 2025 at 1:33 AM
Tom @rockt.ai did a great job in his #ICLR2025 keynote on open-endedness of explaining the ideas we are all so passionate about. A huge thanks for the kind words and for featuring our work, including Jenny Zhang's OMNI. cc @kennethstanley.bsky.social @joelbot3000.bsky.social
Very excited for this keynote by @_rockt! Awesome to see open-endedness go from a niche (😉) area to a keynote at #ICLR ! 🌱🌿🌳🌲🍀🌍✨ 📈 🧬🧪 cc @joelbot3000.bsky.social @kennethstanley.bsky.social
April 25, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Very excited for this keynote by @_rockt! Awesome to see open-endedness go from a niche (😉) area to a keynote at #ICLR ! 🌱🌿🌳🌲🍀🌍✨ 📈 🧬🧪 cc @joelbot3000.bsky.social @kennethstanley.bsky.social
Since the dawn of my career I've heard scientists joke after every AI advance “Now we just need to get AI to write the paper. Now The AI Scientist does all the research AND writes the paper! Wild times! 🧪🔬👩🔬🤖
Introducing The AI Scientist-v2, which produced the 1st fully AI-generated paper to pass peer review at a workshop level (at #ICLR2025) ‼️
Tech Report: pub.sakana.ai/ai-scientist...
GitHub: github.com/SakanaAI/AI-...
This work is a proud collaboration between Sakana AI, UBC, and Oxford University.
Tech Report: pub.sakana.ai/ai-scientist...
GitHub: github.com/SakanaAI/AI-...
This work is a proud collaboration between Sakana AI, UBC, and Oxford University.
April 8, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Since the dawn of my career I've heard scientists joke after every AI advance “Now we just need to get AI to write the paper. Now The AI Scientist does all the research AND writes the paper! Wild times! 🧪🔬👩🔬🤖
Reposted by Jeff Clune
Introducing The AI Scientist-v2, which produced the 1st fully AI-generated paper to pass peer review at a workshop level (at #ICLR2025) ‼️
Tech Report: pub.sakana.ai/ai-scientist...
GitHub: github.com/SakanaAI/AI-...
This work is a proud collaboration between Sakana AI, UBC, and Oxford University.
Tech Report: pub.sakana.ai/ai-scientist...
GitHub: github.com/SakanaAI/AI-...
This work is a proud collaboration between Sakana AI, UBC, and Oxford University.
April 8, 2025 at 7:21 AM
Introducing The AI Scientist-v2, which produced the 1st fully AI-generated paper to pass peer review at a workshop level (at #ICLR2025) ‼️
Tech Report: pub.sakana.ai/ai-scientist...
GitHub: github.com/SakanaAI/AI-...
This work is a proud collaboration between Sakana AI, UBC, and Oxford University.
Tech Report: pub.sakana.ai/ai-scientist...
GitHub: github.com/SakanaAI/AI-...
This work is a proud collaboration between Sakana AI, UBC, and Oxford University.
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Collecting a diamond in #Minecraft is “a very hard task”, says Dr. Jeff Clune (@jeffclune.com) of @cs.ubc.ca, who was part of a team that trained a program to find diamonds using videos of human play2. “This represents a major step forward for the field.”
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
AI masters Minecraft: DeepMind program finds diamonds without being taught
The Dreamer system reached the milestone by ‘imagining’ the future impact of possible decisions.
www.nature.com
April 4, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Collecting a diamond in #Minecraft is “a very hard task”, says Dr. Jeff Clune (@jeffclune.com) of @cs.ubc.ca, who was part of a team that trained a program to find diamonds using videos of human play2. “This represents a major step forward for the field.”
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Trump is the greatest gift to China in history.
April 3, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Trump is the greatest gift to China in history.