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  • July 2022 Newsletter (July 30, 2022)
  • A central AI alignment problem: capabilities generalization, and the sharp left turn (July 4, 2022)
  • AGI Ruin: A List of Lethalities (June 10, 2022)
  • Six Dimensions of Operational Adequacy in AGI Projects (June 7, 2022)
  • Shah and Yudkowsky on alignment failures (March 2, 2022)
  • Ngo and Yudkowsky on scientific reasoning and pivotal acts (March 1, 2022)
  • Christiano and Yudkowsky on AI predictions and human intelligence (March 1, 2022)
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  • December 2021 Newsletter (December 31, 2021)
  • Ngo’s view on alignment difficulty (December 14, 2021)
  • Conversation on technology forecasting and gradualism (December 9, 2021)
  • More Christiano, Cotra, and Yudkowsky on AI progress (December 6, 2021)
  • Shulman and Yudkowsky on AI progress (December 4, 2021)
  • Biology-Inspired AGI Timelines: The Trick That Never Works (December 3, 2021)
  • Visible Thoughts Project and Bounty Announcement (November 29, 2021)
  • Soares, Tallinn, and Yudkowsky discuss AGI cognition (November 29, 2021)
  • Christiano, Cotra, and Yudkowsky on AI progress (November 25, 2021)
  • Yudkowsky and Christiano discuss “Takeoff Speeds” (November 22, 2021)
  • Ngo and Yudkowsky on AI capability gains (November 18, 2021)
  • Ngo and Yudkowsky on alignment difficulty (November 15, 2021)
  • Discussion with Eliezer Yudkowsky on AGI interventions (November 11, 2021)
  • November 2021 Newsletter (November 6, 2021)
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  • Finite Factored Sets (May 23, 2021)
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  • Saving Time (May 18, 2021)
  • Our all-time largest donation, and major crypto support from Vitalik Buterin (May 13, 2021)
  • April 2021 Newsletter (May 2, 2021)
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  • January 2021 Newsletter (January 27, 2021)
  • December 2020 Newsletter (December 30, 2020)
  • 2020 Updates and Strategy (December 21, 2020)
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  • MIRI’s largest grant to date! (April 27, 2020)
  • March 2020 Newsletter (April 1, 2020)
  • February 2020 Newsletter (February 23, 2020)
  • Our 2019 Fundraiser Review (February 13, 2020)
  • January 2020 Newsletter (January 15, 2020)
  • December 2019 Newsletter (December 5, 2019)
  • MIRI’s 2019 Fundraiser (December 2, 2019)
  • Giving Tuesday 2019 (November 28, 2019)
  • November 2019 Newsletter (November 25, 2019)
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  • August 2019 Newsletter (August 6, 2019)
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  • New paper: “Risks from learned optimization” (June 7, 2019)
  • June 2019 Newsletter (June 1, 2019)
  • 2018 in review (May 31, 2019)
  • May 2019 Newsletter (May 10, 2019)
  • New paper: “Delegative reinforcement learning” (April 24, 2019)
  • April 2019 Newsletter (April 21, 2019)
  • New grants from the Open Philanthropy Project and BERI (April 1, 2019)
  • March 2019 Newsletter (March 14, 2019)
  • Applications are open for the MIRI Summer Fellows Program! (March 10, 2019)
  • A new field guide for MIRIx (March 9, 2019)
  • February 2019 Newsletter (February 25, 2019)
  • Thoughts on Human Models (February 22, 2019)
  • Our 2018 Fundraiser Review (February 11, 2019)
  • January 2019 Newsletter (January 31, 2019)
  • December 2018 Newsletter (December 16, 2018)
  • Announcing a new edition of “Rationality: From AI to Zombies” (December 15, 2018)
  • 2017 in review (November 28, 2018)
  • MIRI’s newest recruit: Edward Kmett! (November 28, 2018)
  • November 2018 Newsletter (November 26, 2018)
  • MIRI’s 2018 Fundraiser (November 26, 2018)
  • 2018 Update: Our New Research Directions (November 22, 2018)
  • Embedded Curiosities (November 8, 2018)
  • Subsystem Alignment (November 6, 2018)
  • Robust Delegation (November 4, 2018)
  • Embedded World-Models (November 2, 2018)
  • Decision Theory (October 31, 2018)
  • October 2018 Newsletter (October 29, 2018)
  • Announcing the new AI Alignment Forum (October 29, 2018)
  • Embedded Agents (October 29, 2018)
  • The Rocket Alignment Problem (October 3, 2018)
  • September 2018 Newsletter (September 30, 2018)
  • Summer MIRI Updates (September 1, 2018)
  • August 2018 Newsletter (August 27, 2018)
  • July 2018 Newsletter (July 25, 2018)
  • New paper: “Forecasting using incomplete models” (June 27, 2018)
  • June 2018 Newsletter (June 23, 2018)
  • May 2018 Newsletter (May 31, 2018)
  • Challenges to Christiano’s capability amplification proposal (May 19, 2018)
  • April 2018 Newsletter (April 10, 2018)
  • 2018 research plans and predictions (March 31, 2018)
  • New paper: “Categorizing variants of Goodhart’s Law” (March 27, 2018)
  • March 2018 Newsletter (March 25, 2018)
  • Sam Harris and Eliezer Yudkowsky on “AI: Racing Toward the Brink” (February 28, 2018)
  • February 2018 Newsletter (February 25, 2018)
  • January 2018 Newsletter (January 28, 2018)
  • Fundraising success! (January 10, 2018)
  • End-of-the-year matching challenge! (December 14, 2017)
  • ML Living Library Opening (December 12, 2017)
  • A reply to Francois Chollet on intelligence explosion (December 6, 2017)
  • December 2017 Newsletter (December 6, 2017)
  • MIRI’s 2017 Fundraiser (December 1, 2017)
  • Security Mindset and the Logistic Success Curve (November 26, 2017)
  • Security Mindset and Ordinary Paranoia (November 25, 2017)
  • Announcing “Inadequate Equilibria” (November 16, 2017)
  • A major grant from the Open Philanthropy Project (November 8, 2017)
  • November 2017 Newsletter (November 3, 2017)
  • New paper: “Functional Decision Theory” (October 22, 2017)
  • AlphaGo Zero and the Foom Debate (October 20, 2017)
  • October 2017 Newsletter (October 16, 2017)
  • There’s No Fire Alarm for Artificial General Intelligence (October 13, 2017)
  • September 2017 Newsletter (September 24, 2017)
  • New paper: “Incorrigibility in the CIRL Framework” (August 31, 2017)
  • August 2017 Newsletter (August 16, 2017)
  • July 2017 Newsletter (July 25, 2017)
  • Updates to the research team, and a major donation (July 4, 2017)
  • June 2017 Newsletter (June 16, 2017)
  • May 2017 Newsletter (May 10, 2017)
  • 2017 Updates and Strategy (April 30, 2017)
  • Software Engineer Internship / Staff Openings (April 30, 2017)
  • Ensuring smarter-than-human intelligence has a positive outcome (April 12, 2017)
  • Decisions are for making bad outcomes inconsistent (April 7, 2017)
  • April 2017 Newsletter (April 6, 2017)
  • Two new researchers join MIRI (March 31, 2017)
  • 2016 in review (March 28, 2017)
  • New paper: “Cheating Death in Damascus” (March 18, 2017)
  • March 2017 Newsletter (March 15, 2017)
  • Using machine learning to address AI risk (February 28, 2017)
  • February 2017 Newsletter (February 16, 2017)
  • CHCAI/MIRI research internship in AI safety (February 11, 2017)
  • New paper: “Toward negotiable reinforcement learning” (January 25, 2017)
  • Response to Cegłowski on superintelligence (January 13, 2017)
  • January 2017 Newsletter (January 4, 2017)
  • New paper: “Optimal polynomial-time estimators” (December 31, 2016)
  • AI Alignment: Why It’s Hard, and Where to Start (December 28, 2016)
  • December 2016 Newsletter (December 13, 2016)
  • November 2016 Newsletter (November 20, 2016)
  • Post-fundraiser update (November 11, 2016)
  • White House submissions and report on AI safety (October 20, 2016)
  • MIRI AMA, and a talk on logical induction (October 11, 2016)
  • October 2016 Newsletter (October 9, 2016)
  • CSRBAI talks on agent models and multi-agent dilemmas (October 6, 2016)
  • MIRI’s 2016 Fundraiser (September 16, 2016)
  • New paper: “Logical induction” (September 12, 2016)
  • Grant announcement from the Open Philanthropy Project (September 6, 2016)
  • September 2016 Newsletter (September 3, 2016)
  • CSRBAI talks on preference specification (August 30, 2016)
  • CSRBAI talks on robustness and error-tolerance (August 15, 2016)
  • MIRI strategy update: 2016 (August 5, 2016)
  • August 2016 Newsletter (August 3, 2016)
  • 2016 summer program recap (August 2, 2016)
  • 2015 in review (July 29, 2016)
  • New paper: “Alignment for advanced machine learning systems” (July 27, 2016)
  • Submission to the OSTP on AI outcomes (July 23, 2016)
  • July 2016 Newsletter (July 5, 2016)
  • New paper: “A formal solution to the grain of truth problem” (June 30, 2016)
  • June 2016 Newsletter (June 12, 2016)
  • New paper: “Safely interruptible agents” (June 1, 2016)
  • May 2016 Newsletter (May 13, 2016)
  • A new MIRI research program with a machine learning focus (May 4, 2016)
  • New papers dividing logical uncertainty into two subproblems (April 21, 2016)
  • April 2016 Newsletter (April 11, 2016)
  • New paper on bounded Löb and robust cooperation of bounded agents (March 31, 2016)
  • MIRI has a new COO: Malo Bourgon (March 30, 2016)
  • Announcing a new colloquium series and fellows program (March 28, 2016)
  • Seeking Research Fellows in Type Theory and Machine Self-Reference (March 18, 2016)
  • March 2016 Newsletter (March 5, 2016)
  • John Horgan interviews Eliezer Yudkowsky (March 2, 2016)
  • New paper: “Defining human values for value learners” (February 29, 2016)
  • February 2016 Newsletter (February 6, 2016)
  • End-of-the-year fundraiser and grant successes (January 12, 2016)
  • January 2016 Newsletter (January 3, 2016)
  • Safety engineering, target selection, and alignment theory (December 31, 2015)
  • The need to scale MIRI’s methods (December 23, 2015)
  • Jed McCaleb on Why MIRI Matters (December 15, 2015)
  • OpenAI and other news (December 11, 2015)
  • New paper: “Proof-producing reflection for HOL” (December 4, 2015)
  • December 2015 Newsletter (December 3, 2015)
  • MIRI’s 2015 Winter Fundraiser! (December 1, 2015)
  • New paper: “Quantilizers” (November 29, 2015)
  • New paper: “Formalizing convergent instrumental goals” (November 26, 2015)
  • November 2015 Newsletter (November 3, 2015)
  • Edge.org contributors discuss the future of AI (November 1, 2015)
  • New report: “Leó Szilárd and the Danger of Nuclear Weapons” (October 7, 2015)
  • October 2015 Newsletter (October 3, 2015)
  • New paper: “Asymptotic logical uncertainty and the Benford test” (September 30, 2015)
  • September 2015 Newsletter (September 14, 2015)
  • Our summer fundraising drive is complete! (September 1, 2015)
  • Final fundraiser day: Announcing our new team (August 31, 2015)
  • AI and Effective Altruism (August 28, 2015)
  • Powerful planners, not sentient software (August 18, 2015)
  • What Sets MIRI Apart? (August 14, 2015)
  • Assessing our past and potential impact (August 10, 2015)
  • Target 3: Taking It To The Next Level (August 7, 2015)
  • When AI Accelerates AI (August 3, 2015)
  • August 2015 Newsletter (August 2, 2015)
  • A new MIRI FAQ, and other announcements (July 31, 2015)
  • MIRI’s Approach (July 27, 2015)
  • Four Background Claims (July 24, 2015)
  • Why Now Matters (July 20, 2015)
  • Targets 1 and 2: Growing MIRI (July 18, 2015)
  • MIRI’s 2015 Summer Fundraiser! (July 17, 2015)
  • An Astounding Year (July 16, 2015)
  • July 2015 Newsletter (July 5, 2015)
  • Grants and fundraisers (July 1, 2015)
  • Wanted: Office Manager (aka Force Multiplier) (July 1, 2015)
  • New report: “The Asilomar Conference: A Case Study in Risk Mitigation” (June 30, 2015)
  • June 2015 Newsletter (June 1, 2015)
  • Introductions (May 31, 2015)
  • Two papers accepted to AGI-15 (May 29, 2015)
  • MIRI-related talks from the decision theory conference at Cambridge University (May 24, 2015)
  • A fond farewell and a new Executive Director (May 6, 2015)
  • May 2015 Newsletter (May 1, 2015)
  • New papers on reflective oracles and agents (April 28, 2015)
  • April 2015 newsletter (April 1, 2015)
  • Recent AI control brainstorming by Stuart Armstrong (March 27, 2015)
  • 2014 in review (March 22, 2015)
  • New report: “An Introduction to Löb’s Theorem in MIRI Research” (March 18, 2015)
  • Introducing the Intelligent Agent Foundations Forum (March 18, 2015)
  • Rationality: From AI to Zombies (March 12, 2015)
  • Bill Hibbard on Ethical Artificial Intelligence (March 9, 2015)
  • Fallenstein talk for APS March Meeting 2015 (March 9, 2015)
  • March 2015 newsletter (March 1, 2015)
  • Davis on AI capability and motivation (February 6, 2015)
  • New annotated bibliography for MIRI’s technical agenda (February 5, 2015)
  • New mailing list for MIRI math/CS papers only (February 3, 2015)
  • February 2015 Newsletter (February 1, 2015)
  • New report: “The value learning problem” (January 29, 2015)
  • New report: “Formalizing Two Problems of Realistic World Models” (January 22, 2015)
  • New report: “Vingean Reflection: Reliable Reasoning for Self-Improving Agents” (January 15, 2015)
  • An improved “AI Impacts” website (January 11, 2015)
  • New report: “Questions of reasoning under logical uncertainty” (January 9, 2015)
  • Brooks and Searle on AI volition and timelines (January 8, 2015)
  • Matthias Troyer on Quantum Computers (January 7, 2015)
  • January 2015 Newsletter (January 1, 2015)
  • Our new technical research agenda overview (December 23, 2014)
  • 2014 Winter Matching Challenge Completed! (December 18, 2014)
  • New report: “Computable probability distributions which converge…” (December 16, 2014)
  • New report: “Toward Idealized Decision Theory” (December 16, 2014)
  • New report: “Tiling agents in causal graphs” (December 16, 2014)
  • New paper: “Concept learning for safe autonomous AI” (December 5, 2014)
  • December newsletter (December 1, 2014)
  • 2014 Winter Matching Challenge! (December 1, 2014)
  • Three misconceptions in Edge.org’s conversation on “The Myth of AI” (November 18, 2014)
  • Video of Bostrom’s talk on Superintelligence at UC Berkeley (November 6, 2014)
  • A new guide to MIRI’s research (November 6, 2014)
  • MIRI’s November Newsletter (November 1, 2014)
  • The Financial Times story on MIRI (October 31, 2014)
  • New report: “UDT with known search order” (October 30, 2014)
  • Singularity2014.com appears to be a fake (October 27, 2014)
  • New paper: “Corrigibility” (October 18, 2014)
  • AGI outcomes and civilizational competence (October 16, 2014)
  • Nate Soares’ talk: “Why ain’t you rich?” (October 7, 2014)
  • MIRI’s October Newsletter (October 1, 2014)
  • Kristinn Thórisson on constructivist AI (September 14, 2014)
  • Nate Soares speaking at Purdue University (September 12, 2014)
  • Ken Hayworth on brain emulation prospects (September 9, 2014)
  • Friendly AI Research Help from MIRI (September 8, 2014)
  • John Fox on AI safety (September 4, 2014)
  • Daniel Roy on probabilistic programming and AI (September 4, 2014)
  • MIRI’s September Newsletter (September 1, 2014)
  • Superintelligence reading group (August 31, 2014)
  • New paper: “Exploratory engineering in artificial intelligence” (August 22, 2014)
  • 2014 Summer Matching Challenge Completed! (August 15, 2014)
  • MIRI’s recent effective altruism talks (August 11, 2014)
  • Groundwork for AGI safety engineering (August 4, 2014)
  • MIRI’s August 2014 newsletter (August 1, 2014)
  • Scott Frickel on intellectual movements (July 28, 2014)
  • Nick Bostrom to speak about Superintelligence at UC Berkeley (July 25, 2014)
  • 2014 Summer Matching Challenge! (July 21, 2014)
  • May 2015 decision theory conference at Cambridge University (July 12, 2014)
  • MIRI’s July 2014 newsletter (July 1, 2014)
  • New report: “Non-omniscience, probabilistic inference, and metamathematics” (June 23, 2014)
  • Roger Schell on long-term computer security research (June 23, 2014)
  • New chapter in Cambridge Handbook of Artificial Intelligence (June 19, 2014)
  • Our mid-2014 strategic plan (June 11, 2014)
  • New report: “Distributions allowing tiling of staged subjective EU maximizers” (June 6, 2014)
  • Allan Friedman on cybersecurity and cyberwar (June 6, 2014)
  • MIRI’s June 2014 Newsletter (June 1, 2014)
  • Milind Tambe on game theory in security applications (May 30, 2014)
  • New report: “Loudness: On priors over preference relations” (May 30, 2014)
  • MIRI wants to fund your independently-organized Friendly AI workshop (May 29, 2014)
  • Aaron Tomb on crowd-sourced formal verification (May 29, 2014)
  • Lennart Beringer on the Verified Software Toolchain (May 27, 2014)
  • Johann Schumann on high-assurance systems (May 24, 2014)
  • Sandor Veres on autonomous agents (May 23, 2014)
  • New Paper: “Program Equilibrium in the Prisoner’s Dilemma via Löb’s Theorem” (May 17, 2014)
  • Christof Koch and Stuart Russell on machine superintelligence (May 13, 2014)
  • Exponential and non-exponential trends in information technology (May 12, 2014)
  • Benjamin Pierce on clean-slate security architectures (May 11, 2014)
  • Michael Fisher on verifying autonomous systems (May 9, 2014)
  • Harry Buhrman on quantum algorithms and cryptography (May 7, 2014)
  • New paper: “Problems of self-reference in self-improving space-time embedded intelligence” (May 6, 2014)
  • Liveblogging the SV Gives Fundraiser (May 6, 2014)
  • Calling all MIRI supporters for unique giving opportunity! (May 4, 2014)
  • Kasper Stoy on self-reconfigurable robots (May 2, 2014)
  • MIRI’s May 2014 Newsletter (May 1, 2014)
  • New Paper: “The errors, insights, and lessons of famous AI predictions” (April 30, 2014)
  • Suresh Jagannathan on higher-order program verification (April 30, 2014)
  • Ruediger Schack on quantum Bayesianism (April 29, 2014)
  • David J. Atkinson on autonomous systems (April 28, 2014)
  • Help MIRI in a Massive 24-Hour Fundraiser on May 6th (April 25, 2014)
  • Roland Siegwart on autonomous mobile robots (April 25, 2014)
  • Domitilla del Vecchio on hybrid control for autonomous vehicles (April 24, 2014)
  • Dave Doty on algorithmic self-assembly (April 23, 2014)
  • Ariel Procaccia on economics and computation (April 23, 2014)
  • Suzana Herculano-Houzel on cognitive ability and brain size (April 22, 2014)
  • Martin Hilbert on the world’s information capacity (April 22, 2014)
  • Why MIRI? (April 20, 2014)
  • Thomas Bolander on self-reference and agent introspection (April 13, 2014)
  • Jonathan Millen on covert channel communication (April 12, 2014)
  • Wolf Kohn on hybrid systems control (April 11, 2014)
  • MIRI’s April 2014 Newsletter (April 10, 2014)
  • New Report: Botworld (April 10, 2014)
  • Paulo Tabuada on program synthesis for cyber-physical systems (April 9, 2014)
  • Diana Spears on the safety of adaptive agents (April 9, 2014)
  • Will MacAskill on normative uncertainty (April 8, 2014)
  • Erik DeBenedictis on supercomputing (April 3, 2014)
  • 2013 in Review: Fundraising (April 2, 2014)
  • Lyle Ungar on forecasting (March 26, 2014)
  • Anil Nerode on hybrid systems control (March 26, 2014)
  • Michael Carbin on integrity properties in approximate computing (March 23, 2014)
  • Randal Koene on whole brain emulation (March 20, 2014)
  • Max Tegmark on the mathematical universe (March 19, 2014)
  • MIRI’s March 2014 Newsletter (March 18, 2014)
  • Recent Hires at MIRI (March 13, 2014)
  • Toby Walsh on computational social choice (March 10, 2014)
  • Randall Larsen and Lynne Kidder on USA bio-response (March 9, 2014)
  • John Ridgway on safety-critical systems (March 8, 2014)
  • David Cook on the VV&A process (March 7, 2014)
  • Robert Constable on correct-by-construction programming (March 2, 2014)
  • Armando Tacchella on Safety in Future AI Systems (March 2, 2014)
  • Anders Sandberg on Space Colonization (March 2, 2014)
  • The world’s distribution of computation (initial findings) (February 28, 2014)
  • Nik Weaver on Paradoxes of Rational Agency (February 24, 2014)
  • MIRI’s May 2014 Workshop (February 22, 2014)
  • Conversation with Holden Karnofsky about Future-Oriented Philanthropy (February 21, 2014)
  • John Baez on Research Tactics (February 21, 2014)
  • 2013 in Review: Friendly AI Research (February 18, 2014)
  • MIRI’s February 2014 Newsletter (February 17, 2014)
  • New eBook: ‘Smarter Than Us’ (February 17, 2014)
  • André Platzer on Verifying Cyber-Physical Systems (February 15, 2014)
  • Gerwin Klein on Formal Methods (February 11, 2014)
  • Conversation with Jacob Steinhardt about MIRI Strategy (February 11, 2014)
  • 2013 in Review: Strategic and Expository Research (February 8, 2014)
  • MIRI’s Experience with Google Adwords (February 6, 2014)
  • Careers at MIRI (February 3, 2014)
  • Ronald de Wolf on Quantum Computing (February 3, 2014)
  • Robust Cooperation: A Case Study in Friendly AI Research (February 1, 2014)
  • Two MIRI talks from AGI-11 (January 31, 2014)
  • Mike Frank on reversible computing (January 31, 2014)
  • Emil Vassev on Formal Verification (January 30, 2014)
  • How Big is the Field of Artificial Intelligence? (initial findings) (January 28, 2014)
  • Existential Risk Strategy Conversation with Holden Karnofsky (January 27, 2014)
  • 2013 in Review: Outreach (January 20, 2014)
  • Want to help MIRI by investing in XRP? (January 18, 2014)
  • MIRI’s January 2014 Newsletter (January 17, 2014)
  • MIRI strategy conversation with Steinhardt, Karnofsky, and Amodei (January 13, 2014)
  • Kathleen Fisher on High-Assurance Systems (January 10, 2014)
  • Donor Story #1: Noticing Inferential Distance (January 5, 2014)
  • 7 New Technical Reports, and a New Paper (December 31, 2013)
  • Winter 2013 Fundraiser Completed! (December 26, 2013)
  • Josef Urban on Machine Learning and Automated Reasoning (December 21, 2013)
  • 2013 in Review: Operations (December 20, 2013)
  • New Paper: “Why We Need Friendly AI” (December 18, 2013)
  • MIRI’s December 2013 Newsletter (December 16, 2013)
  • Scott Aaronson on Philosophical Progress (December 13, 2013)
  • 2013 Winter Matching Challenge (December 2, 2013)
  • New Paper: “Predicting AGI: What can we say when we know so little?” (December 1, 2013)
  • New Paper: “Racing to the Precipice” (November 27, 2013)
  • MIRI’s November 2013 Newsletter (November 18, 2013)
  • Support MIRI by Shopping at AmazonSmile (November 6, 2013)
  • Greg Morrisett on Secure and Reliable Systems (November 5, 2013)
  • From Philosophy to Math to Engineering (November 4, 2013)
  • Robin Hanson on Serious Futurism (November 1, 2013)
  • New Paper: “Embryo Selection for Cognitive Enhancement” (October 30, 2013)
  • Markus Schmidt on Risks from Novel Biotechnologies (October 28, 2013)
  • Bas Steunebrink on Self-Reflective Programming (October 25, 2013)
  • Probabilistic Metamathematics and the Definability of Truth (October 23, 2013)
  • Hadi Esmaeilzadeh on Dark Silicon (October 21, 2013)
  • Russell and Norvig on Friendly AI (October 19, 2013)
  • Richard Posner on AI Dangers (October 18, 2013)
  • Ben Goertzel on AGI as a Field (October 18, 2013)
  • MIRI’s October Newsletter (October 12, 2013)
  • Mathematical Proofs Improve But Don’t Guarantee Security, Safety, and Friendliness (October 3, 2013)
  • Upcoming Talks at Harvard and MIT (October 1, 2013)
  • Paul Rosenbloom on Cognitive Architectures (September 25, 2013)
  • Effective Altruism and Flow-Through Effects (September 14, 2013)
  • Double Your Donations via Corporate Matching (September 14, 2013)
  • How well will policy-makers handle AGI? (initial findings) (September 12, 2013)
  • MIRI’s September Newsletter (September 10, 2013)
  • Laurent Orseau on Artificial General Intelligence (September 6, 2013)
  • Five Theses, Using Only Simple Words (September 5, 2013)
  • How effectively can we plan for future decades? (initial findings) (September 4, 2013)
  • The Hanson-Yudkowsky AI-Foom Debate is now available as an eBook! (September 4, 2013)
  • Stephen Hsu on Cognitive Genomics (August 31, 2013)
  • MIRI’s November 2013 Workshop in Oxford (August 30, 2013)
  • Transparency in Safety-Critical Systems (August 25, 2013)
  • Holden Karnofsky on Transparent Research Analyses (August 25, 2013)
  • 2013 Summer Matching Challenge Completed! (August 21, 2013)
  • Luke at Quixey on Tuesday (Aug. 20th) (August 16, 2013)
  • August Newsletter: New Research and Expert Interviews (August 13, 2013)
  • What is AGI? (August 11, 2013)
  • Benja Fallenstein on the Löbian Obstacle to Self-Modifying Systems (August 4, 2013)
  • “Algorithmic Progress in Six Domains” Released (August 2, 2013)
  • AI Risk and the Security Mindset (July 31, 2013)
  • Index of Transcripts (July 25, 2013)
  • MIRI’s December 2013 Workshop (July 24, 2013)
  • Nick Beckstead on the Importance of the Far Future (July 17, 2013)
  • Roman Yampolskiy on AI Safety Engineering (July 15, 2013)
  • James Miller on Unusual Incentives Facing AGI Companies (July 12, 2013)
  • MIRI’s July Newsletter: Fundraiser and New Papers (July 11, 2013)
  • 2013 Summer Matching Challenge! (July 8, 2013)
  • MIRI Has Moved! (July 8, 2013)
  • MIRI’s September 2013 Workshop (July 8, 2013)
  • Responses to Catastrophic AGI Risk: A Survey (July 8, 2013)
  • What is Intelligence? (June 19, 2013)
  • MIRI’s July 2013 Workshop (June 7, 2013)
  • New Research Page and Two New Articles (June 6, 2013)
  • Friendly AI Research as Effective Altruism (June 5, 2013)
  • MIRI May Newsletter: Intelligence Explosion Microeconomics and Other Publications (May 30, 2013)
  • New Transcript: Yudkowsky and Aaronson (May 29, 2013)
  • Sign up for DAGGRE to improve science & technology forecasting (May 24, 2013)
  • Four Articles Added to Research Page (May 24, 2013)
  • When Will AI Be Created? (May 15, 2013)
  • Advise MIRI with Your Domain-Specific Expertise (May 15, 2013)
  • Five theses, two lemmas, and a couple of strategic implications (May 5, 2013)
  • AGI Impact Experts and Friendly AI Experts (May 1, 2013)
  • “Intelligence Explosion Microeconomics” Released (April 29, 2013)
  • “Singularity Hypotheses” Published (April 25, 2013)
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  • Early draft of naturalistic reflection paper (March 22, 2013)
  • March Newsletter (March 7, 2013)
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  • We are now the “Machine Intelligence Research Institute” (MIRI) (January 30, 2013)
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  • Yudkowsky on “What can we do now?” (January 30, 2013)
  • 2012 Winter Matching Challenge a Success! (January 20, 2013)
  • New Transcript: Eliezer Yudkowsky and Massimo Pigliucci on the Intelligence Explosion (January 9, 2013)
  • January 2013 Newsletter (January 9, 2013)
  • December 2012 Newsletter (December 19, 2012)
  • 2012 Winter Matching Challenge! (December 6, 2012)
  • Once again, a reporter thinks our positions are the opposite of what they are (November 26, 2012)
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  • 2012 Summer Singularity Challenge Success! (July 30, 2012)
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  • Machine Intelligence Research Institute Progress Report, May 2012 (June 16, 2012)
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  • Q&A #2 with Luke Muehlhauser, Machine Intelligence Research Institute Executive Director (January 12, 2012)
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