MIRI Updates
Takeover Not Required
This is part of the MIRI Single Author Series. Pieces in this series represent the beliefs and opinions of their named authors, and do not claim to speak for all of MIRI. 0. In the broadest possible terms, the threat...
MIRI Newsletter #121
MIRI updates Eliezer Yudkowsky joined Stephen Wolfram on the Machine Learning Street Talk podcast to discuss AI risk (a phrase that Eliezer objects to: “if there were an asteroid straight on course for Earth, we wouldn’t call that asteroid risk”)....
Communications in Hard Mode
Six months ago, I was a high school English teacher. I wasn’t looking to change careers, even after nineteen sometimes-difficult years. I was good at it. I enjoyed it. After long experimentation, I had found ways to cut through the...
MIRI’s 2024 End-of-Year Update
MIRI is a nonprofit research organization with a mission of addressing the most serious hazards posed by smarter-than-human artificial intelligence. In our general strategy update and communications strategy update earlier this year, we announced a new strategy that we’re executing...
October 2024 Newsletter
News and links Geoffrey Hinton and John Hopfield were awarded this year’s Nobel Prize in Physics for their foundational contributions to machine learning. In a press conference following the announcement, Hinton said that “if you look around, there are very...
The Sun is big, but superintelligences will not spare Earth a little sunlight
Crossposted from Twitter with Eliezer’s permission i. A common claim among e/accs is that, since the solar system is big, Earth will be left alone by superintelligences. A simple rejoinder is that just because Bernard Arnault has $170 billion, does...
