Dear friends of MIRI, As we announced on May 6th, I've decided to take a research position at GiveWell. With unanimous support from the Board, MIRI research fellow Nate Soares will be taking my place as Executive Director starting June...
Research updates Two new papers on reflective oracles and agents. New articles on AI Impacts (last 2 months): Preliminary prices for human-level hardware, Trends in the cost of computing, Glial signaling, Scale of the human brain, Neuron firing rates in humans, Metabolic estimates...
Research updates We've launched a new research forum, the Intelligent Agent Foundations Forum (IAFF), devoted solely to technical research on the superintelligence alignment challenge. On IAFF, three "forum digest" posts summarize much of the work conducted on that forum prior to...
