MIRI Updates
Nik Weaver on Paradoxes of Rational Agency
Nik Weaver is a professor of mathematics at Washington University in St. Louis. He did his graduate work at Harvard and Berkeley and received his Ph.D. in 1994. His main interests are functional analysis, quantization, and the foundations of mathematics....
MIRI’s May 2014 Workshop
From May 3–11, MIRI will host its 7th Workshop of Logic, Probability, and Reflection. This workshop will focus on decision theory and tiling agents. The participants — all veterans of past workshops — are: Mihály Barasz (Google) Paul Christiano (UC...
Conversation with Holden Karnofsky about Future-Oriented Philanthropy
Recently, Eliezer and I had an email conversation with Holden Karnofsky to discuss future-oriented philanthropy, including MIRI. The participants were: Eliezer Yudkowsky (research fellow at MIRI) Luke Muehlhauser (executive director at MIRI) Holden Karnofsky (co-CEO at GiveWell) We then edited...
John Baez on Research Tactics
John Baez is a professor of mathematics at U.C. Riverside. Until recently he worked on higher category theory and quantum gravity. His internet column This Week’s Finds dates back to to 1993 and is sometimes called the world’s first blog....
2013 in Review: Friendly AI Research
This is the 4th part of my personal and qualitative self-review of MIRI in 2013, in which I review MIRI’s 2013 Friendly AI (FAI) research activities. ((What counts as “Friendly AI research” is, naturally, a matter of debate. For most...
MIRI’s February 2014 Newsletter
Dear friends, See below for news on our new ebook, new research, new job openings, and Google’s new AI ethics board. Research Updates New analyses: Robust Cooperation: A Case Study in Friendly AI Research and How Big is the Field...
