MIRI Updates
End-of-the-year fundraiser and grant successes
Our winter fundraising drive has concluded. Thank you all for your support! Through the month of December, 175 distinct donors gave a total of $351,298. Between this fundraiser and our summer fundraiser, which brought in $630k, we’ve seen a surge...
January 2016 Newsletter
Research updates A new paper: “Proof-Producing Reflection for HOL” A new analysis: Safety Engineering, Target Selection, and Alignment Theory New at IAFF: What Do We Need Value Learning For?; Strict Dominance for the Modified Demski Prior; Reflective Probability Distributions and...
Safety engineering, target selection, and alignment theory
Artificial intelligence capabilities research is aimed at making computer systems more intelligent — able to solve a wider range of problems more effectively and efficiently. We can distinguish this from research specifically aimed at making AI systems at various capability...
The need to scale MIRI’s methods
Andrew Critch, one of the new additions to MIRI’s research team, has taken the opportunity of MIRI’s winter fundraiser to write on his personal blog about why he considers MIRI’s work important. Some excerpts: Since a team of CFAR alumni...
Jed McCaleb on Why MIRI Matters
This is a guest post by Jed McCaleb, one of MIRI’s top contributors, for our winter fundraiser. A few months ago, several leaders in the scientific community signed an open letter pushing for oversight into the research and development...
OpenAI and other news
We’re only 11 days into December, and this month is shaping up to be a momentous one. On December 3, the University of Cambridge partnered with the University of Oxford, Imperial College London, and UC Berkeley to launch the Leverhulme...
