MIRI Updates
MIRI’s April newsletter: Relaunch Celebration and a New Math Result
Greetings from The Executive Director Dear friends, These are exciting times at MIRI. After years of awareness-raising and capacity-building, we have finally transformed ourselves into a research institute focused on producing the mathematical research required to build trustworthy (or “human-friendly”)...
MIRI’s Strategy for 2013
This post is not a detailed strategic plan. For now, I just want to provide an update on what MIRI is doing in 2013 and why. Our mission remains the same. The creation of smarter-than-human intelligence will likely be the...
Facing the Intelligence Explosion ebook
Facing the Intelligence Explosion is now available as an ebook! You can get it here. It is available as a “pay-what-you-want” package that includes the ebook in three formats: MOBI, EPUB, and PDF. It is also available on Amazon Kindle...
The Lean Nonprofit
Can Lean Startup methods work for nonprofits? The Lean Startup‘s author Eric Ries seems to think so: A startup is a human institution designed to create a new product or service under conditions of extreme uncertainty… Anyone who is creating...
Early draft of naturalistic reflection paper
Update: See Reflection in Probabilistic Logic for more details on how this result relates to MIRI’s research mission. In a recent blog post we described one of the results of our 1st MIRI Workshop on Logic, Probability, and Reflection: The...
March Newsletter
Greetings From The Executive Director Friends, As previously announced on our blog, the Singularity Institute has been renamed as the Machine Intelligence Research Institute (MIRI). Naturally, both our staff and our supporters have positive associations with our original name,...
