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Author: Luke Muehlhauser

Careers at MIRI

We’ve published a new Careers page, which advertises current job openings at MIRI. As always, we’re seeking math researchers to make progress on Friendly AI theory. If you’re interested, the next step is not to apply for the position directly,...

Ronald de Wolf on Quantum Computing

Ronald de Wolf is a senior researcher at CWI and a part-time full professor at the University of Amsterdam. He obtained his PhD there in 2001 with a thesis about quantum computing and communication complexity, advised by Harry Buhrman and...

Robust Cooperation: A Case Study in Friendly AI Research

The paper “Robust Cooperation in the Prisoner’s Dilemma: Program Equilibrium via Provability Logic” is among the clearer examples of theoretical progress produced by explicitly FAI-related research goals. What can we learn from this case study in Friendly AI research? How...

Two MIRI talks from AGI-11

Thanks in part to the volunteers at MIRI Volunteers, we can now release the videos, slides, and transcripts for two talks delivered at AGI-11. Both talks represent joint work by Anna Salamon and Carl Shulman, who were MIRI staff at...

Mike Frank on reversible computing

Michael P. Frank received his Bachelor of Science degree in Symbolic Systems from Stanford University in 1991, and his Master of Science and Doctor of Philosophy degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in...

Emil Vassev on Formal Verification

Dr. Emil Vassev received his M.Sc. in Computer Science (2005) and his Ph.D. in Computer Science (2008) from Concordia University, Montreal, Canada. Currently, he is a research fellow at Lero (the Irish Software Engineering Research Centre) at University of Limerick,...