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Author: Luke Muehlhauser

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

2014 Summer Matching Challenge!

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...