MIRI Updates
The AI Doc: Buy tickets and spread the word! On Thursday, March 26th, a major new AI documentary is coming out: The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist. Tickets are on sale now. The movie is excellent, and...
Fundraiser For the first time in six years, MIRI is running a fundraiser! And it’s an ambitious one: we’re trying to raise $6M ($4.4M from donors plus 1:1 matching on the first $1.6M raised, thanks to an SFF grant). The...
If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies As we announced last month, Eliezer and Nate have a book coming out this September: If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies. This is MIRI’s major attempt to warn the policy world and the general...
A huge announcement today: Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares have written a book attempting to raise the alarm about superintelligent AI for the widest possible audience — If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies. The book comes out this September 16,...
MIRI updates Eliezer Yudkowsky joined Stephen Wolfram on the Machine Learning Street Talk podcast to discuss AI risk (a phrase that Eliezer objects to: “if there were an asteroid straight on course for Earth, we wouldn’t call that asteroid risk”)....
News and links Geoffrey Hinton and John Hopfield were awarded this year’s Nobel Prize in Physics for their foundational contributions to machine learning. In a press conference following the announcement, Hinton said that “if you look around, there are very...