MIRI Updates
New paper: “Concept learning for safe autonomous AI”
MIRI research associate Kaj Sotala has released a new paper, accepted to the AI & Ethics workshop at AAAI-2015, titled “Concept learning for safe autonomous AI.” The abstract reads: Sophisticated autonomous AI may need to base its behavior on fuzzy...
December newsletter
MIRI’s winter fundraising challenge has begun! Every donation made to MIRI between now and January 10th will be matched dollar-for-dollar, up to a total of $100,000! Donate now to double your impact while helping us raise up to...
2014 Winter Matching Challenge!
Update: we have finished the matching challenge! Thanks everyone! The original post is below. Thanks to the generosity of Peter Thiel, ((Peter Thiel has pledged $150,000 to MIRI unconditionally, and an additional $100,000 conditional on us being able to raise...
Three misconceptions in Edge.org’s conversation on “The Myth of AI”
A recent Edge.org conversation — “The Myth of AI” — is framed in part as a discussion of points raised in Bostrom’s Superintelligence, and as a response to much-repeated comments by Elon Musk and Stephen Hawking that seem to have...
Video of Bostrom’s talk on Superintelligence at UC Berkeley
In September, MIRI hosted Nick Bostrom at UC Berkeley to discuss his new book Superintelligence. A video and transcript of that talk are now available from BookTV by C-SPAN, which also has a DVD of the event available.
...A new guide to MIRI’s research
Nate Soares has written “A Guide to MIRI’s Research,” which outlines the main thrusts of MIRI’s current research agenda and provides recommendations for which textbooks and papers to study so as to understand what’s happening at the cutting edge. This...
