MIRI Updates
MIRI’s 2019 Fundraiser
MIRI’s 2019 fundraiser is concluded. Over the past two years, huge donor support has helped us double the size of our AI alignment research team. Hitting our $1M fundraising goal this month will put us in a great position to...
Giving Tuesday 2019
Update January 25, 2020: $77,325 was donated to MIRI through Facebook on Giving Tuesday. $45,915 of this was donated within 13.5 seconds of the Facebook matching event starting at 5:00AM PT and was matched by Facebook. Thank you to everybody...
November 2019 Newsletter
I'm happy to announce that Nate Soares and Ben Levinstein's “Cheating Death in Damascus” has been accepted for publication in The Journal of Philosophy (previously voted the second-highest-quality journal in philosophy). In other news, MIRI researcher Buck Shlegeris has written over...
October 2019 Newsletter
Updates Ben Pace summarizes a second round of AI Alignment Writing Day posts. The Zettelkasten Method: MIRI researcher Abram Demski describes a note-taking system that's had a large positive effect on his research productivity. Will MacAskill writes a detailed critique of functional...
September 2019 Newsletter
Updates We ran a very successful MIRI Summer Fellows Program, which included a day where participants publicly wrote up their thoughts on various AI safety topics. See Ben Pace’s first post in a series of roundups. A few highlights from the writing...
August 2019 Newsletter
Updates MIRI research associate Stuart Armstrong is offering $1000 for good questions to ask an Oracle AI. Recent AI safety posts from Stuart: Indifference: Multiple Changes, Multiple Agents; Intertheoretic Utility Comparison: Examples; Normalising Utility as Willingness to Pay; and Partial Preferences...
