MIRI Updates
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...
Paul S. Rosenbloom is Professor of Computer Science at the University of Southern California and a project leader at USC’s Institute for Creative Technologies. He was a key member of USC’s Information Sciences Institute for two decades, leading new directions...
Last month, MIRI research fellow Carl Shulman ((Carl was a MIRI research fellow at the time of the conversation, but left MIRI at the end of August 2013 to study computer science.)) participated in a recorded debate/conversation about effective altruism...
MIRI has now partnered with Double the Donation, a company that makes it easier for donors to take advantage of donation matching programs offered by their employers. More than 65% of Fortune 500 companies match employee donations, and 40% offer...
MIRI’s mission is “to ensure that the creation of smarter-than-human intelligence has a positive impact.” One policy-relevant question is: How well should we expect policy makers to handle the invention of AGI, and what does this imply about how much...
Greetings from the Executive Director Dear friends, With your help, we finished our largest fundraiser ever, raising $400,000 for our research program. My thanks to everyone who contributed! We continue to publish non-math research to our blog, including...