MIRI Updates
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...
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 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....
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...
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...
We are pleased to release a new ebook, commissioned by MIRI and written by Oxford University’s Stuart Armstrong, and available in EPUB, MOBI, PDF, and from the Amazon and Apple ebook stores. What happens when machines become smarter than humans?...