MIRI’s mission is “to ensure that the creation of smarter-than-human intelligence has a positive impact.” One policy-relevant question is: How well should we expect policy makers to handle the invention of AGI, and what does this imply about how much...
Greetings from the Executive Director Dear friends, With your help, we finished our largest fundraiser ever, raising $400,000 for our research program. My thanks to everyone who contributed! We continue to publish non-math research to our blog, including...
Laurent Orseau is an associate professor (maître de conférences) since 2007 at AgroParisTech, Paris, France. In 2003, he graduated from a professional master in computer science at the National Institute of Applied Sciences in Rennes and from a research master...
A recent xkcd comic described the Saturn V rocket using only the 1000 most frequently used words (in English). The rocket was called “up-goer five,” and the liquid hydrogen feed line was the “thing that lets in cold wet air...
MIRI aims to do research now that increases humanity’s odds of successfully managing important AI-related events that are at least a few decades away. Thus, we’d like to know: To what degree can we take actions now that will predictably...
Stephen Hsu is Vice-President for Research and Graduate Studies and Professor of Theoretical Physics at Michigan State University. Educated at Caltech and Berkeley, he was a Harvard Junior Fellow and held faculty positions at Yale and the University of Oregon....
