Daniel Roy is an Assistant Professor of Statistics at the University of Toronto. Roy earned an S.B. and M.Eng. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and a Ph.D. in Computer Science, from MIT. His dissertation on probabilistic programming received the department’s George M Sprowls Thesis Award. Subsequently, he held a Newton International Fellowship of the Royal… Read more »
Posts By: Luke Muehlhauser
MIRI’s September Newsletter
Thanks to the generosity of 100+ donors, we successfully completed our 2014 summer matching challenge on August 15th, raising more than $400,000 total for our research program. Our deepest thanks to all our supporters! Research updates New paper: “Exploratory engineering in artificial intelligence.” 2 new analyses: “Groundwork for AGI safety engineering” and “Loosemore… Read more »
New paper: “Exploratory engineering in artificial intelligence”
Luke Muehlhauser and Bill Hibbard have a new paper (PDF) in the September 2014 issue of Communications of the ACM, the world’s most-read peer-reviewed computer science publication. The title is “Exploratory Engineering in Artificial Intelligence.” Excerpt: We regularly see examples of new artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities… No doubt such automation will produce tremendous economic value, but will… Read more »
2014 Summer Matching Challenge Completed!
Thanks to the generosity of 100+ donors, today we successfully completed our 2014 summer matching challenge, raising more than $400,000 total for our research program. Our deepest thanks to all our supporters! Also, Jed McCaleb’s new crypto-currency Stellar was launched during MIRI’s fundraiser, and we decided to accept donated stellars. These donations weren’t counted toward the matching drive, and their market… Read more »
MIRI’s recent effective altruism talks
MIRI recently participated in the 2014 Effective Altruism Retreat and Effective Altruism Summit organized by Leverage Research. We gave four talks, participated in a panel, and held “office hours” during which people could stop by and ask us questions. The slides for our talks are available below: Muehlhauser, MIRI Intro Yudkowsky, Caring about Many Distant People in Strange… Read more »
Scott Frickel on intellectual movements
Scott Frickel is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and Institute for the Study of Environment and Society at Brown University. His research interweaves sociological analysis with environmental studies and science and technology studies. Prior to coming to Brown he was Boeing Distinguished Professor of Environmental Sociology at Washington State University. He holds a… Read more »
Nick Bostrom to speak about Superintelligence at UC Berkeley
MIRI has arranged for Nick Bostrom to discuss his new book — Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies — on the UC Berkeley campus on September 12th. Bostrom is the director of the Future of Humanity Institute at Oxford University, and is a frequent collaborator with MIRI researchers (e.g. see “The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence“). He is the…
Thanks to the generosity of several major donors,† every donation made to MIRI between now and August 15th, 2014 will be matched dollar-for-dollar, up to a total of $200,000! $0 $50K $100K $150K $200K We have reached our matching total of $200,000! 116 Total Donors Now is your chance to double your impact while… Read more »2014 Summer Matching Challenge!
