MIRI Updates
MIRI’s September Newsletter
Thanks to the generosity of 100+ donors, we successfully completed our 2014 summer matching challenge on August 15th, raising more than $400,000 total for our research program. Our deepest thanks to all our supporters! Research updates New...
Superintelligence reading group
Nick Bostrom’s eagerly awaited Superintelligence comes out in the US this week. To help you get the most out of it, MIRI is running an online reading group where you can join with others to ask questions, discuss ideas, and...
New paper: “Exploratory engineering in artificial intelligence”
Luke Muehlhauser and Bill Hibbard have a new paper (PDF) in the September 2014 issue of Communications of the ACM, the world’s most-read peer-reviewed computer science publication. The title is “Exploratory Engineering in Artificial Intelligence.” Excerpt: We regularly see examples...
2014 Summer Matching Challenge Completed!
Thanks to the generosity of 100+ donors, today we successfully completed our 2014 summer matching challenge, raising more than $400,000 total for our research program. Our deepest thanks to all our supporters! Also, Jed McCaleb’s new crypto-currency Stellar was launched...
MIRI’s recent effective altruism talks
MIRI recently participated in the 2014 Effective Altruism Retreat and Effective Altruism Summit organized by Leverage Research. We gave four talks, participated in a panel, and held “office hours” during which people could stop by and ask us questions. The...
Groundwork for AGI safety engineering
Improvements in AI are resulting in the automation of increasingly complex and creative human behaviors. Given enough time, we should expect artificial reasoners to begin to rival humans in arbitrary domains, culminating in artificial general intelligence (AGI). A machine would...
