The Machine Intelligence Research Institute’s 2015 winter fundraising drive begins today, December 1! Our current progress: Donate Now The drive will run for the month of December, and will help support MIRI’s research efforts aimed at ensuring that smarter-than-human AI systems have a positive impact. MIRI’s Research Focus The field of AI… Read more »
Posts By: Nate Soares
Our summer fundraising drive is complete!
Our summer fundraising drive is now finished. We raised a grand total of $631,957, from 263 donors. This is an incredible sum, and your support has made this the biggest fundraiser we’ve ever run. We’ve already been hard at work growing our research team and spinning up new projects, and I’m excited to see… Read more »
Final fundraiser day: Announcing our new team
Today is the final day of MIRI’s summer fundraising drive, and as of this morning, our total stands at $543,373. Our donors’ efforts have made this fundraiser the biggest one we’ve ever run, and we’re hugely grateful. As our fundraiser nears the finish line, I’d like to update you on the new shape of MIRI’s… Read more »
Powerful planners, not sentient software
Over the past few months, some major media outlets have been spreading concern about the idea that AI might spontaneously acquire sentience and turn against us. Many people have pointed out the flaws with this notion, including Andrew Ng, an AI scientist of some renown: I don’t see any realistic path from the stuff we… Read more »
What Sets MIRI Apart?
Last week, we received several questions from the effective altruist community in response to our fundraising post. Here’s Maxwell Fritz: […] My snap reaction to MIRI’s pitches has typically been, “yeah, AI is a real concern. But I have no idea whether MIRI are the right people to work on it, or if their approach… Read more »
Target 3: Taking It To The Next Level
One week ago, we hit our first fundraising target. I’m thrilled to announce that we’re now closing in on our second target: our fundraising total passed $400,000 today! As we approach target number two, we’re already taking active steps to grow our team. Jessica Taylor joined our core research team on August 1; another research… Read more »
MIRI’s Approach
MIRI’s mission is “to ensure that the creation of smarter-than-human artificial intelligence has a positive impact.” How can we ensure any such thing? It’s a daunting task, especially given that we don’t have any smarter-than-human machines to work with at the moment. In the previous post I discussed four background claims that motivate our mission;… Read more »
Four Background Claims
MIRI’s mission is to ensure that the creation of smarter-than-human artificial intelligence has a positive impact. Why is this mission important, and why do we think that there’s work we can do today to help ensure any such thing? In this post and my next one, I’ll try to answer those questions. This post will… Read more »
