MIRI Updates
MIRI’s September 2013 Workshop
From September 7-13, MIRI will host its 4th Workshop on Logic, Probability, and Reflection. The focus of this workshop will be the foundations of decision theory. Participants confirmed so far include: Paul Christiano (UC Berkeley) Wei Dai (independent) Gary Drescher...
Responses to Catastrophic AGI Risk: A Survey
MIRI is self-publishing another technical report that was too lengthy (60 pages) for publication in a journal: Responses to Catastrophic AGI Risk: A Survey. The report, co-authored by past MIRI researcher Kaj Sotala and University of Louisville’s Roman Yampolskiy, is...
What is Intelligence?
When asked their opinions about “human-level artificial intelligence” — aka “artificial general intelligence” (AGI) ((I use the HLAI and AGI interchangeably, but lately I’ve been using AGI almost exclusively, because I’ve learned that many people in the AI community react...
MIRI’s July 2013 Workshop
From July 8-14, MIRI will host its 3rd Workshop on Logic, Probability, and Reflection. The focus of this workshop will be the Löbian obstacle to self-modifying systems. Participants confirmed so far include: Andrew Critch (just finished his math PhD at...
New Research Page and Two New Articles
Our new Research page has launched! Our previous research page was a simple list of articles, but the new page describes the purpose of our research, explains four categories of research to which we contribute, and highlights the papers we...
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,...
