Our Mission
The Machine Intelligence Research Institute exists to ensure that the creation of smarter-than-human intelligence benefits society.
To learn more about MIRI’s goals, have a look at our research summary and Intelligence Explosion FAQ.
Organizational Information
2013 Strategy
An overview of MIRI’s priorities, strategies, and plans for expansion.
Transparency & Financials
Our policies and financial records.
Board of Directors
Information about MIRI’s board members.
Top Donors
The largest supporters of our research.
Press Kit
High-level orientation material on our research and personnel.
Singularity Summit
We co-produce the Singularity Summit along with Singularity University.
Our Values
Safety
Just as engineers build extra safety measures into the design of a bridge, we believe it is important to build extraordinary safety measures into smarter-than-human intelligence because it is an engineering project that may impact billions of lives.
Rationality
Rationality is a toolkit built from cognitive science, probability theory, and decision theory. We believe that the methods of rationality are useful for solving difficult problems like those of advanced artificial intelligence.
Empiricism
We believe that we must test our beliefs against reality in order to have an accurate model of the world and its opportunities.
Precision
We believe that the most important problems can only be solved by picking the exactly correct answer out of a large space of apparently possible answers.
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