MIRI Updates
Robin Hanson on Serious Futurism
Robin Hanson is an associate professor of economics at George Mason University and a research associate at the Future of Humanity Institute of Oxford University. He is known as a founder of the field of prediction markets, and was a...
New Paper: “Embryo Selection for Cognitive Enhancement”
During his time as a MIRI research fellow, Carl Shulman co-authored (with Nick Bostrom) a paper that is now available as a preprint, titled “Embryo Selection for Cognitive Enhancement: Curiosity or Game-changer?” Abstract: Human capital is a key determinant of...
Markus Schmidt on Risks from Novel Biotechnologies
Dr. Markus Schmidt is founder and team leader of Biofaction, a research and science communication company in Vienna, Austria. With an educational background in electronic engineering, biology and environmental risk assessment he has carried out environmental risk assessment and safety...
Bas Steunebrink on Self-Reflective Programming
Bas Steunebrink is a postdoctoral researcher at the Swiss AI lab IDSIA, as part of Prof. Schmidhuber’s group. He received his PhD in 2010 from Utrecht University, the Netherlands. Bas’s dissertation was on the subject of artificial emotions, which fits...
Probabilistic Metamathematics and the Definability of Truth
On October 15th, Paul Christiano presented “Probabilistic metamathematics and the definability of truth” at Harvard University as part of Logic at Harvard (details here). As explained here, Christiano came up with the idea for this approach, and it was developed...
Hadi Esmaeilzadeh on Dark Silicon
Hadi Esmaeilzadeh recently joined the School of Computer Science at the Georgia Institute of Technology as assistant professor. He is the first holder of the Catherine M. and James E. Allchin Early Career Professorship. Hadi directs the Alternative Computing Technologies...
