MIRI Updates
Holden Karnofsky on Transparent Research Analyses
Holden Karnofsky is the co-founder of GiveWell, which finds outstanding giving opportunities and publishes the full details of its analysis to help donors decide where to give. GiveWell tracked ~$9.6 million in donations made on the basis of its recommendations...
2013 Summer Matching Challenge Completed!
Thanks to the generosity of dozens of donors, on August 15th we successfully completed the largest fundraiser in MIRI’s history. All told, we raised $400,000, which will fund our research going forward. This fundraiser came “right down to the wire.”...
August Newsletter: New Research and Expert Interviews
Greetings from the Executive Director Dear friends, My personal thanks to everyone who has contributed to our ongoing fundraiser. We are 74% of the way to our goal! I’ve been glad to hear from many of you that you’re thrilled...
What is AGI?
One of the most common objections we hear when talking about artificial general intelligence (AGI) is that “AGI is ill-defined, so you can’t really say much about it.” In an earlier post, I pointed out that we often don’t have...
Benja Fallenstein on the Löbian Obstacle to Self-Modifying Systems
Benja Fallenstein researches mathematical models of human and animal behavior at Bristol University, as part of the MAD research group and the decision-making research group. Before that, she graduated from University of Vienna with a BSc in Mathematics. In her...
