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Author: Alex Vermeer

Update: Our fundraiser has concluded. Many thanks to all our generous supporters for helping us raise just over $1.6M and secure all available matching funds! MIRI is running its first fundraiser in six years, targeting $6M. The first $1.6M raised...

Back in May, we announced that Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares’s new book If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies was coming out in September. At long last, the book is here! US and UK books, respectively. IfAnyoneBuildsIt.com Read on for...

MIRI is a nonprofit research organization with a mission of addressing the most serious hazards posed by smarter-than-human artificial intelligence. In our general strategy update and communications strategy update earlier this year, we announced a new strategy that we’re executing...

Update Jan. 2021: We’re no longer seeking applications for this position. The Machine Intelligence Research Institute is looking for a very specialized autodidact to keep us up to date on developments in machine learning—a “living library” of new results. ML...

The Machine Intelligence Research Institute is looking for highly capable software engineers to directly support our AI alignment research efforts, with a focus on projects related to machine learning. We’re seeking engineers with strong programming skills who are passionate about...

We’ve uploaded the final set of videos from our recent Colloquium Series on Robust and Beneficial AI (CSRBAI) at the MIRI office, co-hosted with the Future of Humanity Institute. A full list of CSRBAI talks with public video or slides:...