MIRI Updates
MIRI’s August 2014 newsletter
Dear friends, Our summer matching challenge is underway! Every donation made to MIRI between now and August 15th, 2014 will be matched dollar-for-dollar, up to a total of $200,000! Please donate now to help support our research! Research Updates May...
Scott Frickel on intellectual movements
Scott Frickel is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and Institute for the Study of Environment and Society at Brown University. His research interweaves sociological analysis with environmental studies and science and technology studies. Prior to coming to Brown...
Nick Bostrom to speak about Superintelligence at UC Berkeley
MIRI has arranged for Nick Bostrom to discuss his new book — Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies — on the UC Berkeley campus on September 12th. Bostrom is the director of the Future of Humanity Institute at Oxford University, and is...
2014 Summer Matching Challenge!
Thanks to the generosity of several major donors,† every donation made to MIRI between now and August 15th, 2014 will be matched dollar-for-dollar, up to a total of $200,000! $0 $50K $100K $150K $200K We have reached our matching...
May 2015 decision theory conference at Cambridge University
MIRI, CSER, and the philosophy department at Cambridge University are co-organizing a decision theory conference titled Self-Prediction in Decision Theory and AI, to be held in the Faculty of Philosophy at the Cambridge University. The dates are May 13-19, 2015....
MIRI’s July 2014 newsletter
Research Updates Two new reports: “Distributions allowing tiling of staged subjective EU maximizers” and “Non-omniscience, probabilistic inference, and metamathematics.” New analysis: Failures of an embodied intelligence. Book chapter co-authored by Nick Bostrom (Oxford) and Eliezer Yudkowsky (MIRI) now published in...
