MIRI Updates
MIRI’s mission is “to ensure that the creation of smarter-than-human intelligence has a positive impact.” A central strategy for achieving this mission is to find and train what one might call “AGI impact experts” and “Friendly AI experts.” AGI impact...
MIRI’s new, 93-page technical report by Eliezer Yudkowsky, “Intelligence Explosion Microeconomics,” has now been released. The report explains one of the open problems of our research program. Here’s the abstract: I. J. Good’s thesis of the ‘intelligence explosion’ is that...
Singularity Hypotheses: A Scientific and Philosophical Assessment has now been published by Springer, in hardcover and ebook forms. The book contains 20 chapters about the prospect of machine superintelligence, including 4 chapters by MIRI researchers and research associates. “Intelligence Explosion:...
During his time as a research fellow for MIRI, Alex Altair wrote a paper on Timeless Decision Theory (TDT) that has now been published: “A Comparison of Decision Algorithms on Newcomblike Problems.” Altair’s paper is both more succinct and also...
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”)...
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...