MIRI Updates
New report: “Non-omniscience, probabilistic inference, and metamathematics”
UC Berkeley student and MIRI research associate Paul Christiano has released a new report: “Non-omniscience, probabilistic inference, and metamathematics.” Abstract: We suggest a tractable algorithm for assigning probabilities to sentences of first-order logic and updating those probabilities on the basis...
Roger Schell on long-term computer security research
Roger R. Schell is a Professor of Engineering Practice at the University Of Southern California Viterbi School Of Engineering, and a member of the founding faculty for their Masters of Cyber Security degree program. He is internationally recognized for originating...
New chapter in Cambridge Handbook of Artificial Intelligence
The Cambridge Handbook of Artificial Intelligence has been released. It contains a chapter co-authored by Nick Bostrom (Oxford) and Eliezer Yudkowsky (MIRI) called “The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence,” available in PDF here. The abstract reads: The possibility of creating thinking...
Our mid-2014 strategic plan
Summary Events since MIRI’s April 2013 strategic plan have increased my confidence that we are “headed in the right direction.” During the rest of 2014 we will continue to: Decrease our public outreach efforts, leaving most of that work to...
New report: “Distributions allowing tiling of staged subjective EU maximizers”
MIRI has released a new technical report by Eliezer Yudkowsky, “Distributions allowing tiling of staged subjective EU maximizers,” which summarizes some work done at MIRI’s May 2014 workshop. Abstract: We consider expected utility maximizers making a staged series of sequential...
Allan Friedman on cybersecurity and cyberwar
MIRI recently interviewed Allan Friedman, co-author of Cybersecurity and Cyberwar: What Everyone Needs to Know. We interviewed Dr. Friedman about cyberwar because the regulatory and social issues raised by the prospect of cyberwar may overlap substantially with those that will...
