MIRI Updates
April 2017 Newsletter
Our newest publication, “Cheating Death in Damascus,” makes the case for functional decision theory, our general framework for thinking about rational choice and counterfactual reasoning. In other news, our research team is expanding! Sam Eisenstat and Marcello Herreshoff, both previously...
Two new researchers join MIRI
MIRI’s research team is growing! I’m happy to announce that we’ve hired two new research fellows to contribute to our work on AI alignment: Sam Eisenstat and Marcello Herreshoff, both from Google. Sam Eisenstat studied pure mathematics at the...
2016 in review
It’s time again for my annual review of MIRI’s activities. ((See our previous reviews: 2015, 2014, 2013.)) In this post I’ll provide a summary of what we did in 2016, see how our activities compare to our previously stated goals...
New paper: “Cheating Death in Damascus”
MIRI Executive Director Nate Soares and Rutgers/UIUC decision theorist Ben Levinstein have a new paper out introducing functional decision theory (FDT), MIRI’s proposal for a general-purpose decision theory. The paper, titled “Cheating Death in Damascus,” considers a wide range of...
March 2017 Newsletter
Research updates New at IAFF: Some Problems with Making Induction Benign; Entangled Equilibria and the Twin Prisoners’ Dilemma; Generalizing Foundations of Decision Theory New at AI Impacts: Changes in Funding in the AI Safety Field; Funding of AI Research MIRI...
Using machine learning to address AI risk
At the EA Global 2016 conference, I gave a talk on “Using Machine Learning to Address AI Risk”: It is plausible that future artificial general intelligence systems will share many qualities in common with present-day machine learning systems. If so,...
