It’s safe to say that this past year exceeded a lot of people’s expectations. Twelve months ago, Nick Bostrom’s Superintelligence had just been published. Long-term questions about smarter-than-human AI systems were simply not a part of mainstream discussions about the...
Two big announcements today: 1. MIRI has won $299,310 from the Future of Life Institute’s grant program to jumpstart the field of long-term AI safety research. $250,000 will go to our research program over the course of three years. This...
Hello, I’m Nate Soares, and I’m pleased to be taking the reins at MIRI on Monday morning. For those who don’t know me, I’ve been a research fellow at MIRI for a little over a year now. I attended my...