MIRI Updates
Russell and Norvig on Friendly AI
AI: A Modern Approach is by far the dominant textbook in the field. It is used in 1200 universities, and is currently the 22nd most-cited publication in computer science. Its authors, Stuart Russell and Peter Norvig, devote significant space to...
Richard Posner on AI Dangers
Richard Posner is a jurist, legal theorist, and economist. He is also the author of nearly 40 books, and is by far the most-cited legal scholar of the 20th century. In 2004, Posner published Catastrophe: Risk and Response, in which...
Ben Goertzel on AGI as a Field
Dr. Ben Goertzel is Chief Scientist of financial prediction firm Aidyia Holdings; Chairman of AI software company Novamente LLC and bioinformatics company Biomind LLC; Chairman of the Artificial General Intelligence Society and the OpenCog Foundation; Vice Chairman of futurist nonprofit...
MIRI’s October Newsletter
Greetings from the Executive Director Dear friends, The big news this month is that Paul Christiano and Eliezer Yudkowsky are giving talks at Harvard and MIT about the work coming out of MIRI’s workshops, on Oct. 15th and 17th, respectively...
Mathematical Proofs Improve But Don’t Guarantee Security, Safety, and Friendliness
In 1979, Michael Rabin proved that his encryption system could be inverted — so as to decrypt the encrypted message — only if an attacker could factor n. And since this factoring task is computationally hard for any sufficiently large...
Upcoming Talks at Harvard and MIT
On October 15th from 4:30-5:30pm, MIRI workshop participant Paul Christiano will give a technical talk at the Harvard University Science Center, room 507, as part of the Logic at Harvard seminar and colloquium. Christiano’s title and abstract are: Probabilistic metamathematics...
