Posts By: Colm Ó Riain

I’m thrilled to announce two major donations to MIRI!   First, a long-time supporter has given MIRI by far our largest donation ever: $2.5 million per year over the next four years, and an additional ~$5.6 million in 2025. This anonymous donation comes from a cryptocurrency investor who previously donated $1.01M in ETH to MIRI… Read more »

Our 2019 fundraiser ended on December 31 with the month-long campaign raising $601,1201 from over2 259 donors. While we didn’t reach our $1M fundraising goal, the amount raised will be a very substantial help to us going into 2020. We’re grateful to all who supported us during the fundraiser.   20% of our fundraiser total… Read more »

Update January 25, 2020: $77,325 was donated to MIRI through Facebook on Giving Tuesday. $45,915 of this was donated within 13.5 seconds of the Facebook matching event starting at 5:00AM PT and was matched by Facebook. Thank you to everybody who set their clocks early to support us so generously! Shout out too to the… Read more »

CFAR and MIRI are running our fifth annual MIRI Summer Fellows Program (MSFP) in the San Francisco Bay Area from August 9 to August 24, 2019. MSFP is an extended retreat for mathematicians and programmers with a serious interest in making technical progress on the problem of AI alignment. It includes an overview of CFAR’s… Read more »

Our 2018 Fundraiser ended on December 31 with the five week campaign raising $951,8171 from 348 donors to help advance MIRI’s mission. We surpassed our Mainline Target ($500k) and made it more than halfway again to our Accelerated Growth Target ($1.2M). We’re grateful to all of you who supported us. Thank you!   With cryptocurrency… Read more »