On Thursday, September 18th Purdue University is hosting the seminar Dawn or Doom: The New Technology Explosion. Speakers include James Barrat, author of Our Final Invention, and MIRI research fellow Nate Soares. Nate’s talk title and abstract are: Why ain’t...
Kenneth Hayworth is president of the Brain Preservation Foundation (BPF), an organization formed to skeptically evaluate cryonic and other potential human preservation technologies by examining how well they preserve the brain’s neural circuitry at the nanometer scale. Hayworth is also...
Earlier this year, a student told us he was writing an honors thesis on logical decisions theories such as TDT and UDT — one of MIRI’s core research areas. Our reply was “Why didn’t you tell us this earlier? When...
John Fox is an interdisciplinary scientist with theoretical interests in AI and computer science, and an applied focus in medicine and medical software engineering. After training in experimental psychology at Durham and Cambridge Universities and post-doctoral fellowships at CMU and...
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...
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...
