Get involved!

MIRI offers many opportunities to get involved including research workshops,
internships, volunteering, and more.

Research Workshops

Join our research efforts by attending an upcoming workshop.

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MIRI hosts several week-long math research workshops each year, in the USA and Europe, on topics at the intersection of mathematical logic and probability theory. Past workshops have resulted in papers about probabilistic logic, program equilibrium, a Löbian obstacle to consistent self-reflection, and other topics.

If you might like to attend such a workshop in the next 18 months, please apply below so we can chat with you about your specific interests and your availability. We use this information to plan our workshops, rather than scheduling our workshops and then inviting people, so please apply even if there isn’t an already-scheduled workshop you know you’d like to attend!

For invited participants, all expenses are covered by MIRI.

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Internships

Join us for a few weeks at our head office in Berkeley, California.

If you are passionate about our work and want to get involved, but aren’t yet in a position to contribute directly to our research mission as a workshop participant, an internship might be right for you.

An internships offers you the opportunity to contribute your expertise/abilities, gain valuable experience, and form strong relationships with MIRI’s staff, collaborators, and community of supporters.

If you possess the qualities we are looking for in an intern (see criteria for consideration) we want to hear from you.

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Volunteer

We are always in need of volunteers for a wide range of tasks.

MIRI’s team does a great deal, but we’re always short on time and people to get work done. This is where our volunteers come in. Every month there are hundreds of hours of work that we simply can’t get to without your help.

If you are passionate about MIRI’s work and want to help us out remotely, head over to mirivolunteers.org to see what volunteers are currently working on, and register as a volunteer to get started.

Click here to get started at mirivolunteers.org.

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At MIRI we think that the creation of smarter-than-human intelligence will likely be the most significant event in human history, and MIRI exists to help ensure that this event has a positive impact.

In 2013 MIRI made a major strategic shift to a focus on Friendly AI research. Whether you’ve recently discovered MIRI or have been following our work over the years, you’ll want to read our 2013 strategic update to familiarize yourself with our current strategy.

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Give for Free

Join others who are raising money for MIRI simply by going about their everyday lives.

With the swipe of a credit card, your daily web searches, purchases at your favorite online retailers, and more, you can raise money for MIRI, all with no effort and at no cost to you!

GoodSearch

GoodSearch (powered by Yahoo!) donates a small amount to MIRI every time you do a web search.

Click here to sign up.

To ensure you use GoodSearch as much as possible,

GoodDining (US Only)

Register your credit card with GoodDining and MIRI will receive 2.5–5% of what you spend when you eat out at participating restaurants. See GoodDining’s how it works page to find out more.

Click here to sign up.

* Use your MIRI Credit Card when eating out and MIRI will receive an additional 1%.

GoodShop

When you use GoodShop a percentage of purchases you make at over 2,800 online retailers are donated back to MIRI.

Dell (4% of purchase donated), Barnes & Noble (3%), The North Face (5%), Walgreens (4%), Amazon.com (1.5%), Apple (1%), Banana Republic (2.5%), Expedia (up to 5%), and Hotels.com (3%) are but a fraction of the participating online retailers.

Best of all, when you install the browser extension (compatible with all major browsers), it all happens automatically without any effort on your part.

Click here to sign up.

* Use your MIRI Credit Card when shopping online and MIRI will receive an additional 1%.

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