MIRI Updates
This past December, we ran our first fundraiser in six years, setting an ambitious goal of $6M. We ended up receiving a total of $1.8M from small donors and $1.6M in matching from the Survival and Flourishing Fund (SFF) for...
View the official memo here. An internal model at OpenAI has autonomously disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry, a mathematical field with applications in cryptography, wireless device communication, and medical imaging. The proof relates to a famous question posed...
If anyone, anywhere builds a superhuman artificial intelligence using present methods, the most likely outcome is catastrophe. There have accordingly been widespread calls for an international agreement prohibiting the development of superintelligence. In November 2025, MIRI’s Technical Governance Team published...
With AI capabilities rapidly increasing, humans appear close to developing AI systems that are better than human experts across all domains. This raises a series of questions about how the world will—and should—respond. In the research paper AI Governance to...
View the official memo here. China has consistently signaled a willingness to engage on global AI governance since at least 2017. This memo compiles key statements from the Chinese government and prominent figures demonstrating their desire to coordinate on the...
The AI Doc is now streaming on Peacock. It’s also available to rent or purchase on Apple TV, Amazon Prime, and YouTube TV. So you’ve just seen The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist, and you suddenly have...