Posts By: Jake

    Research updates We’ve made significant updates to three pages: Research, All Publications, and A Guide to MIRI’s Research. We’ve published an annotated bibliography and dedicated page for our new technical research agenda overview. This new mailing list sends one email per new technical paper, and nothing else. New analyses: Davis on AI capability… Read more »

Research Updates Four new reports in support of our new technical agenda overview, on logical uncertainty, Vingean reflection, realistic world models, and value learning. AI Impacts site relaunched with new content. Reply to Rodney Brooks and John Searle on AI volition and timelines. Interview: Matthias Troyer on quantum computers. News Updates Our Superintelligence online reading group… Read more »

  Thanks to the generosity of 80+ donors, we completed our winter 2014 matching challenge, raising $200,000 for our research program. Many, many thanks to all who contributed! Research Updates Our major project of the past five months has been a new overview of our technical research agenda, plus six supporting papers which cover each research area… Read more »

    Research Updates New Friendly AI research area: “Corrigibility.” New report: “UDT with known search order.” 2 new analyses: “AGI outcomes and civilizational competence” and “The Financial Times story on MIRI.” Video of Nate Soares’ decision theory talk at Purdue. News Updates If you’re reading Superintelligence or following its online reading group, please take… Read more »

Dear friends, Our summer matching challenge is underway! Every donation made to MIRI between now and August 15th, 2014 will be matched dollar-for-dollar, up to a total of $200,000! Please donate now to help support our research! Research Updates May 2015: Cambridge decision theory workshop 2 new analyses: “Some studies which could improve our strategic picture… Read more »

Greetings from the Executive Director Dear friends, My personal thanks to everyone who has contributed to our ongoing fundraiser. We are 74% of the way to our goal! I’ve been glad to hear from many of you that you’re thrilled with the progress we’ve made in the past two years — progress both as an organization… Read more »

Greetings From the Executive Director Dear friends, It’s been a busy month! Mostly, we’ve been busy publishing things. As you’ll see below, Singularity Hypotheses has now been published, and it includes four chapters by MIRI researchers or research associates. We’ve also published two new technical reports — one on decision theory and another on intelligence explosion microeconomics… Read more »

Greetings from The Executive Director Dear friends, These are exciting times at MIRI. After years of awareness-raising and capacity-building, we have finally transformed ourselves into a research institute focused on producing the mathematical research required to build trustworthy (or “human-friendly”) machine intelligence. As our most devoted supporters know, this has been our goal for roughly… Read more »