MIRI Updates
MIRI’s December 2013 Workshop
From December 14-20, MIRI will host another Workshop on Logic, Probability, and Reflection. This workshop will focus on the Löbian obstacle, probabilistic logic, and the intersection of logic and probability more generally. Participants confirmed so far include: Nate Ackerman (Harvard)...
Nick Beckstead on the Importance of the Far Future
Nick Beckstead recently finished a Ph.D in philosophy at Rutgers University, where he focused on practical and theoretical ethical issues involving future generations. He is particularly interested in the practical implications of taking full account of how actions taken today...
Roman Yampolskiy on AI Safety Engineering
Roman V. Yampolskiy holds a PhD degree from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University at Buffalo. There he was a recipient of a four year NSF IGERT fellowship. Before beginning his doctoral studies, Dr. Yampolskiy received...
James Miller on Unusual Incentives Facing AGI Companies
James D. Miller is an associate professor of economics at Smith College. He is the author of Singularity Rising, Game Theory at Work, and a principles of microeconomics textbook along with several academic articles. He has a PhD in economics...
MIRI’s July Newsletter: Fundraiser and New Papers
Greetings from the Executive Director Dear friends, Another busy month! Since our last newsletter, we’ve published 3 new papers and 2 new “analysis” blog posts, we’ve significantly improved our website (especially the Research page), we’ve relocated to downtown Berkeley, and...
2013 Summer Matching Challenge!
Thanks to the generosity of several major donors,† every donation to the Machine Intelligence Research Institute made from now until August 15th, 2013 will be matched dollar-for-dollar, up to a total of $200,000! Donate Now! $0 $50,000 $100,000 $150,000...
