Last week, Nate Soares outlined his case for prioritizing long-term AI safety work: 1. Humans have a fairly general ability to make scientific and technological progress. The evolved cognitive faculties that make us good at organic chemistry overlap heavily with...
Research updates We’ve rewritten the first and last sections of the main paper summarizing our research program. This version of the paper will also be published with minor changes in the Springer anthology The Technological Singularity. New analyses: Four Background...
MIRI is at Effective Altruism Global! A number of the talks can be watched online at the EA Global Livestream. We have a new MIRI Frequently Asked Questions page, which we’ll be expanding as we continue getting new questions over...
Hello, all! I’m Rob Bensinger, MIRI’s Outreach Coordinator. I’ll be keeping you updated on MIRI’s activities and on relevant news items. If you have feedback or questions, you can get in touch with me by email. Research updates A new...
Today we release a new report by Katja Grace, “The Asilomar Conference: A Case Study in Risk Mitigation” (PDF, 67pp). The 1975 Asilomar Conference on Recombinant DNA is sometimes cited as an example of successful action by scientists who preemptively...
Between 2006 and 2009, senior MIRI researcher Eliezer Yudkowsky wrote several hundred essays for the blogs Overcoming Bias and Less Wrong, collectively called “the Sequences.” With two days remaining until Yudkowsky concludes his other well-known rationality book, Harry Potter and...
