MIRI Updates
Back in July 2013, Will Sawin (Princeton) and Abram Demski (USC) wrote a technical report describing a result from that month’s MIRI research workshop. We are finally releasing that report today. It is titled “Computable probability distributions which converge on...
Today we release a new technical report by Nate Soares and Benja Fallenstein, “Toward idealized decision theory.” If you’d like to discuss the paper, please do so here. Abstract: This paper motivates the study of decision theory as necessary for...
Today we release a new technical report by Nate Soares, “Tiling agents in causal graphs.” The report begins: Fallenstein and Soares [2014] demonstrates that it’s possible for certain types of proof-based agents to “tile” (license the construction of successor agents...
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...
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...
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...