MIRI Updates
2013 in Review: Strategic and Expository Research
This is the 3rd part of my personal and qualitative self-review of MIRI in 2013, in which I begin to review MIRI’s 2013 research activities. By “research activities” I mean to include outreach efforts primarily aimed at researchers, and also...
MIRI’s Experience with Google Adwords
In late 2011, MIRI opened a Google Grants account, which provides $10k/mo in free Google Adwords for nonprofits. Kevin Fischer and I tweaked our Adwords account over several months until we successfully spent the full $10,000/mo 3 months in a...
Careers at MIRI
We’ve published a new Careers page, which advertises current job openings at MIRI. As always, we’re seeking math researchers to make progress on Friendly AI theory. If you’re interested, the next step is not to apply for the position directly,...
Ronald de Wolf on Quantum Computing
Ronald de Wolf is a senior researcher at CWI and a part-time full professor at the University of Amsterdam. He obtained his PhD there in 2001 with a thesis about quantum computing and communication complexity, advised by Harry Buhrman and...
Robust Cooperation: A Case Study in Friendly AI Research
The paper “Robust Cooperation in the Prisoner’s Dilemma: Program Equilibrium via Provability Logic” is among the clearer examples of theoretical progress produced by explicitly FAI-related research goals. What can we learn from this case study in Friendly AI research? How...
Two MIRI talks from AGI-11
Thanks in part to the volunteers at MIRI Volunteers, we can now release the videos, slides, and transcripts for two talks delivered at AGI-11. Both talks represent joint work by Anna Salamon and Carl Shulman, who were MIRI staff at...
