MIRI Updates
The Rocket Alignment Problem
The following is a fictional dialogue building off of AI Alignment: Why It’s Hard, and Where to Start. (Somewhere in a not-very-near neighboring world, where science took a very different course…) ALFONSO: Hello, Beth. I’ve noticed a lot of...
September 2018 Newsletter
Summer MIRI Updates: Buck Shlegeris and Ben Weinstein-Raun have joined the MIRI team! Additionally, we ran a successful internship program over the summer, and we’re co-running a new engineer-oriented workshop series with CFAR. On the fundraising side, we received a...
Summer MIRI Updates
In our last major updates—our 2017 strategic update and fundraiser posts—we said that our current focus is on technical research and executing our biggest-ever hiring push. Our supporters responded with an incredible show of support at the end of the...
August 2018 Newsletter
Updates New posts to the new AI Alignment Forum: Buridan’s Ass in Coordination Games; Probability is Real, and Value is Complex; Safely and Usefully Spectating on AIs Optimizing Over Toy Worlds MIRI Research Associate Vanessa Kosoy wins a $7500 AI...
July 2018 Newsletter
Updates A new paper: “Forecasting Using Incomplete Models“ New research write-ups and discussions: Prisoners’ Dilemma with Costs to Modeling; Counterfactual Mugging Poker Game; Optimization Amplifies Eliezer Yudkowsky, Paul Christiano, Jessica Taylor, and Wei Dai discuss Alex Zhu’s FAQ for Paul’s...
New paper: “Forecasting using incomplete models”
MIRI Research Associate Vanessa Kosoy has a paper out on issues in naturalized induction: “Forecasting using incomplete models”. Abstract: We consider the task of forecasting an infinite sequence of future observations based on some number of past observations, where the...
