James D. Miller is an associate professor of economics at Smith College. He is the author of Singularity Rising, Game Theory at Work, and a principles of microeconomics textbook along with several academic articles. He has a PhD in economics...
Greetings from the Executive Director Dear friends, Another busy month! Since our last newsletter, we’ve published 3 new papers and 2 new “analysis” blog posts, we’ve significantly improved our website (especially the Research page), we’ve relocated to downtown Berkeley, and...
Thanks to the generosity of several major donors,† every donation to the Machine Intelligence Research Institute made from now until August 15th, 2013 will be matched dollar-for-dollar, up to a total of $200,000! Donate Now! $0 $50,000 $100,000 $150,000...
For the past several months, MIRI and its child organization CFAR have been working from a much-too-small office on the outskirts of Berkeley. At the end of June, MIRI and CFAR took over the 3rd floor of 2030 Addison St....
From September 7-13, MIRI will host its 4th Workshop on Logic, Probability, and Reflection. The focus of this workshop will be the foundations of decision theory. Participants confirmed so far include: Paul Christiano (UC Berkeley) Wei Dai (independent) Gary Drescher...
MIRI is self-publishing another technical report that was too lengthy (60 pages) for publication in a journal: Responses to Catastrophic AGI Risk: A Survey. The report, co-authored by past MIRI researcher Kaj Sotala and University of Louisville’s Roman Yampolskiy, is...
