June 2015 Newsletter

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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 1st. Nate has introduced himself here. I’m proud of what the MIRI team has accomplished… Read more »

May 2015 Newsletter

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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 of rate of cortical firing, Current FLOPS prices, The cost of TEPS, Kurzweil and Allen… Read more »

April 2015 newsletter

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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 its public launch: on UDT, on reflective oracles, and on corrigibility-related work. New report: “An Introduction… Read more »