I’m happy to announce that MIRI has received two major new grants: A two-year grant totaling $2,112,500 from the Open Philanthropy Project. A $600,000 grant from the Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative. The Open Philanthropy Project’s grant was awarded as part...
Want to be in the reference class “people who solve the AI alignment problem”? We now have a guide on how to get started, based on our experience of what tends to make research groups successful. (Also on the AI...
We’ve just released a field guide for MIRIx groups, and for other people who want to get involved in AI alignment research. MIRIx is a program where MIRI helps cover basic expenses for outside groups that want to work on...
Updates Ramana Kumar and Scott Garrabrant argue that the AGI safety community should begin prioritizing “approaches that work well in the absence of human models”: [T]o the extent that human modelling is a good idea, it is important to do...
Our December fundraiser was a success, with 348 donors contributing just over $950,000. Supporters leveraged a variety of matching opportunities, including employer matching programs, WeTrust Spring’s Ethereum-matching campaign, Facebook’s Giving Tuesday event, and professional poker players Dan Smith, Aaron Merchak,...
Edward Kmett has joined the MIRI team! Edward is a prominent Haskell developer who popularized the use of lenses for functional programming, and currently maintains many of the libraries around the Haskell core libraries. I’m also happy to announce another...
