July 2017 Newsletter

A number of major mid-year MIRI updates: we received our largest donation to date, $1.01 million from an Ethereum investor! Our research priorities have also shifted somewhat, reflecting the addition of four new full-time researchers (Marcello Herreshoff, Sam Eisenstat, Tsvi Benson-Tilsen, and Abram Demski) and the departure of Patrick LaVictoire and Jessica Taylor.

Research updates

New at IAFF: Futarchy Fix, Cooperative Oracles: Stratified Pareto Optima and Almost Stratified Pareto Optima
New at AI Impacts: Some Survey Results!, AI Hopes and Fears in Numbers

General updates

We attended the Effective Altruism Global Boston event. Speakers included Allan Dafoe on “The AI Revolution and International Politics” (video) and Jason Matheny on “Effective Altruism in Government” (video).
MIRI COO Malo Bourgon moderated an IEEE workshop revising a section from Ethically Aligned Design.

News and links

New from DeepMind researchers: “Interpreting Deep Neural Networks Using Cognitive Psychology”
New from OpenAI researchers: “Corrigibility”
A collaboration between DeepMind and OpenAI: “Learning from Human Preferences”
Recent progress in deep learning: “Self-Normalizing Neural Networks”
From Ian Goodfellow and Nicolas Papernot: “The Challenge of Verification and Testing of Machine Learning”
From 80,000 Hours: a guide to working in AI policy and strategy and a related interview with Miles Brundage of the Future of Humanity Institute.

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