MIRI has two papers forthcoming in the conference proceedings of AGI-15. The first paper, previously released as a MIRI technical report, is “Reflective variants of Solomonoff induction and AIXI,” by Benja Fallenstein, Nate Soares, and Jessica Taylor. The second paper,...
Recently, MIRI co-organized a conference at Cambridge University titled Self-prediction in decision theory and artificial intelligence. At least six of the conference’s talks directly discussed issues raised in MIRI’s technical agenda: MIRI research fellow (and soon, Executive Director) Nate Soares...
Dear friends and supporters of MIRI, I have some important news to share with you about the future of MIRI. Given my passion for doing research, I’m excited to have accepted a research position at GiveWell. Like MIRI, GiveWell is...
We recently released two new papers on reflective oracles and agents. The first is “Reflective oracles: A foundation for classical game theory,” by Benja Fallenstein, Jessica Taylor, and Paul Christiano. Abstract: Classical game theory treats players as special—a description of...
MIRI recently sponsored Oxford researcher Stuart Armstrong to take a solitary retreat and brainstorm new ideas for AI control. This brainstorming generated 16 new control ideas, of varying usefulness and polish. During the past month, he has described each new...
It’s time for my review of MIRI in 2014. ((This year’s annual review is shorter than last year’s 5-part review of 2013, in part because 2013 was an unusually complicated focus-shifting year, and in part because, in retrospect, last year’s...
