MIRI Updates
Assessing our past and potential impact
We’ve received several thoughtful questions in response to our fundraising post to the Effective Altruism Forum and our new FAQ. From quant trader Maxwell Fritz: My snap reaction to MIRI’s pitches has typically been, “yeah, AI is a real concern....
Target 3: Taking It To The Next Level
One week ago, we hit our first fundraising target. I’m thrilled to announce that we’re now closing in on our second target: our fundraising total passed $400,000 today! As we approach target number two, we’re already taking active steps to...
When AI Accelerates AI
Last week, Nate Soares outlined his case for prioritizing long-term AI safety work: 1. Humans have a fairly general ability to make scientific and technological progress. The evolved cognitive faculties that make us good at organic chemistry overlap heavily with...
August 2015 Newsletter
Research updates We’ve rewritten the first and last sections of the main paper summarizing our research program. This version of the paper will also be published with minor changes in the Springer anthology The Technological Singularity. New analyses: Four Background...
A new MIRI FAQ, and other announcements
MIRI is at Effective Altruism Global! A number of the talks can be watched online at the EA Global Livestream. We have a new MIRI Frequently Asked Questions page, which we’ll be expanding as we continue getting new questions over...
MIRI’s Approach
MIRI’s mission is “to ensure that the creation of smarter-than-human artificial intelligence has a positive impact.” How can we ensure any such thing? It’s a daunting task, especially given that we don’t have any smarter-than-human machines to work with at...
