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 of the first round of grants recommended by their new committee for effective altruism support:… Read more »
Posts By: Rob Bensinger
March 2019 Newsletter
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 Alignment Forum.) Other updates Demski and Garrabrant’s introduction to MIRI’s agent foundations research, “Embedded Agency,” is… Read more »
A new field guide for MIRIx
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 open problems in AI safety. You can start your own group or find information on… Read more »
February 2019 Newsletter
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 it very well; to the extent that it is a bad idea, it is best… Read more »
January 2019 Newsletter
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, and Martin Crowley’s Double Up Drive, expertly facilitated by Raising for Effective Giving. In all, matching… Read more »
December 2018 Newsletter
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 new recruit: James Payor. James joins the MIRI research team after three years at Draftable, a software… Read more »
Announcing a new edition of “Rationality: From AI to Zombies”
MIRI is putting out a new edition of Rationality: From AI to Zombies, including the first set of R:AZ print books! Map and Territory (volume 1) and How to Actually Change Your Mind (volume 2) are out today! Map and Territory is: $6.50 on… Read more »
MIRI’s newest recruit: Edward Kmett!
Prolific Haskell developer Edward Kmett has joined the MIRI team! Edward is perhaps best known for popularizing the use of lenses for functional programming. Lenses are a tool that provides a compositional vocabulary for accessing parts of larger structures and describing what you want to do with those parts. Beyond the lens library, Edward maintains… Read more »
