Summer MIRI Updates: Buck Shlegeris and Ben Weinstein-Raun have joined the MIRI team! Additionally, we ran a successful internship program over the summer, and we’re co-running a new engineer-oriented workshop series with CFAR.
On the fundraising side, we received a $489,000 grant from the Long-Term Future Fund, a $150,000 AI Safety Retraining Program grant from the Open Philanthropy Project, and an amazing surprise $1.02 million grant from “Anonymous Ethereum Investor #2”!
Other updates
- New research forum posts: Reducing Collective Rationality to Individual Optimization in Common-Payoff Games Using MCMC; History of the Development of Logical Induction
- We spoke at the Human-Aligned AI Summer School in Prague.
- MIRI advisor Blake Borgeson has joined our Board of Directors, and DeepMind Research Scientist Victoria Krakovna has become a MIRI research advisor.
News and links
- The Open Philanthropy Project is accepting a new round of applicants for its AI Fellows Program.