MIRI Updates
When AI Accelerates AI
Last week, Nate Soares outlined his case for prioritizing long-term AI safety work: 1. Humans have a fairly general ability to make scientific and technological progress. The evolved cognitive faculties that make us good at organic chemistry overlap heavily with...
August 2015 Newsletter
Research updates We’ve rewritten the first and last sections of the main paper summarizing our research program. This version of the paper will also be published with minor changes in the Springer anthology The Technological Singularity. New analyses: Four Background...
A new MIRI FAQ, and other announcements
MIRI is at Effective Altruism Global! A number of the talks can be watched online at the EA Global Livestream. We have a new MIRI Frequently Asked Questions page, which we’ll be expanding as we continue getting new questions over...
MIRI’s Approach
MIRI’s mission is “to ensure that the creation of smarter-than-human artificial intelligence has a positive impact.” How can we ensure any such thing? It’s a daunting task, especially given that we don’t have any smarter-than-human machines to work with at...
Four Background Claims
MIRI’s mission is to ensure that the creation of smarter-than-human artificial intelligence has a positive impact. Why is this mission important, and why do we think that there’s work we can do today to help ensure any such thing? In...
Why Now Matters
I’m often asked whether donations now are more important than donations later. Allow me to deliver an emphatic yes: I currently expect that donations to MIRI today are worth much more than donations to MIRI in five years. As things...
