MIRI Updates
New report: “The Asilomar Conference: A Case Study in Risk Mitigation”
Today we release a new report by Katja Grace, “The Asilomar Conference: A Case Study in Risk Mitigation” (PDF, 67pp). The 1975 Asilomar Conference on Recombinant DNA is sometimes cited as an example of successful action by scientists who preemptively...
June 2015 Newsletter
Dear friends of MIRI, As we announced on May 6th, I've decided to take a research position at GiveWell. With unanimous support from the Board, MIRI research fellow Nate Soares will be taking my place as Executive Director starting June...
Introductions
Hello, I’m Nate Soares, and I’m pleased to be taking the reins at MIRI on Monday morning. For those who don’t know me, I’ve been a research fellow at MIRI for a little over a year now. I attended my...
Two papers accepted to AGI-15
MIRI has two papers forthcoming in the conference proceedings of AGI-15. The first paper, previously released as a MIRI technical report, is “Reflective variants of Solomonoff induction and AIXI,” by Benja Fallenstein, Nate Soares, and Jessica Taylor. The second paper,...
MIRI-related talks from the decision theory conference at Cambridge University
Recently, MIRI co-organized a conference at Cambridge University titled Self-prediction in decision theory and artificial intelligence. At least six of the conference’s talks directly discussed issues raised in MIRI’s technical agenda: MIRI research fellow (and soon, Executive Director) Nate Soares...
A fond farewell and a new Executive Director
Dear friends and supporters of MIRI, I have some important news to share with you about the future of MIRI. Given my passion for doing research, I’m excited to have accepted a research position at GiveWell. Like MIRI, GiveWell is...
