MIRI Updates
Friendly AI Research as Effective Altruism
MIRI was founded in 2000 on the premise that creating ((In this post, I talk about the value of humanity in general creating Friendly AI, though MIRI co-founder Eliezer Yudkowsky usually talks about MIRI in particular — or at least,...
MIRI May Newsletter: Intelligence Explosion Microeconomics and Other Publications
Greetings From the Executive Director Dear friends, It’s been a busy month! Mostly, we’ve been busy publishing things. As you’ll see below, Singularity Hypotheses has now been published, and it includes four chapters by MIRI researchers or research associates. We’ve...
New Transcript: Yudkowsky and Aaronson
In When Will AI Be Created?, I referred to a bloggingheads.tv conversation between Eliezer Yudkowsky and Scott Aaronson. A transcript of that dialogue is now available, thanks to MIRI volunteers Ethan Dickinson, Daniel Kokotajlo, and Rick Schwall. See also the...
Sign up for DAGGRE to improve science & technology forecasting
In When Will AI Be Created?, I named four methods that might improve our forecasts of AI and other important technologies. Two of these methods were explicit quantification and leveraging aggregation, as exemplified by IARPA’s ACE program, which aims to...
Four Articles Added to Research Page
Four older articles have been added to our research page. The first is the early draft of Christiano et al.’s “Definability of ‘Truth’ in Probabilistic Logic” previously discussed here and here. The draft was last updated on April 2, 2013....
When Will AI Be Created?
Strong AI appears to be the topic of the week. Kevin Drum at Mother Jones thinks AIs will be as smart as humans by 2040. Karl Smith at Forbes and “M.S.” at The Economist seem to roughly concur with Drum...
