MIRI Updates
May 2019 Newsletter
Updates A new paper from MIRI researcher Vanessa Kosoy, presented at the ICLR SafeML workshop this week: "Delegative Reinforcement Learning: Learning to Avoid Traps with a Little Help." New research posts: Learning "Known" Information When the Information is Not Actually Known; Defeating Goodhart and the...
New paper: “Delegative reinforcement learning”
MIRI Research Associate Vanessa Kosoy has written a new paper, “Delegative reinforcement learning: Learning to avoid traps with a little help.” Kosoy will be presenting the paper at the ICLR 2019 SafeML workshop in two weeks. The abstract reads: Most...
April 2019 Newsletter
Updates New research posts: Simplified Preferences Needed, Simplified Preferences Sufficient; Smoothmin and Personal Identity; Example Population Ethics: Ordered Discounted Utility; A Theory of Human Values; A Concrete Proposal for Adversarial IDA MIRI has received a set of new grants from the Open Philanthropy Project and the Berkeley...
New grants from the Open Philanthropy Project and BERI
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...
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...
Applications are open for the MIRI Summer Fellows Program!
CFAR and MIRI are running our fifth annual MIRI Summer Fellows Program (MSFP) in the San Francisco Bay Area from August 9 to August 24, 2019. MSFP is an extended retreat for mathematicians and programmers with a serious interest in...
