MIRI Updates
2011 Machine Intelligence Research Institute Winter Fundraiser
Help us raise $100,000 that will go towards funding a website redesign, new research papers, and staging a bigger and better Singularity Summit 2012 in San Francisco. This fundraiser ends January 20th, so please contribute now to help us achieve...
Interview with New MIRI Research Fellow Luke Muehlhauser
Section One: Background and Core Ideas Q1. What is your personal background? Q2. Why should we care about artificial intelligence? Q3. Why do you think smarter-than-human artificial intelligence is possible? Q4. The mission of the Machine Intelligence Research Institute is...
2011 Summer Matching Challenge Success!
Thanks to the effort of our donors, the 2011 Summer Singularity Challenge has been met! All $125,000 contributed will be matched dollar for dollar by our matching backers, raising a total of $250,000 to fund the Machine Intelligence Research Institute’s...
Machine Intelligence Research Institute Strategic Plan 2011
The Machine Intelligence Research Institute has prepared a Strategic Plan (PDF) to concisely describe our near-term goals, vision, and concrete actions in pursuit of those goals and vision. We welcome commentary from our supporter community on the plan. The release...
New Intelligence Explosion Website
We’ve put together a new website focused on the intelligence explosion concept: IntelligenceExplosion.com. The site is a “landing page” that provides an easy introduction to the topic for laymen and researchers alike. Also see Nick Bostrom’s landing pages for anthropics,...
Announcing the $125,000 Summer Singularity Challenge
Thanks to the generosity of several major donors†, every donation to the Machine Intelligence Research Institute made now until August 31, 2011 will be matched dollar-for-dollar, up to a total of $125,000. Donate now!Now is your chance to double your...
