MIRI Updates
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
