MIRI Updates
2014 Summer Matching Challenge!
Thanks to the generosity of several major donors,† every donation made to MIRI between now and August 15th, 2014 will be matched dollar-for-dollar, up to a total of $200,000! $0 $50K $100K $150K $200K We have reached our matching...
May 2015 decision theory conference at Cambridge University
MIRI, CSER, and the philosophy department at Cambridge University are co-organizing a decision theory conference titled Self-Prediction in Decision Theory and AI, to be held in the Faculty of Philosophy at the Cambridge University. The dates are May 13-19, 2015....
MIRI’s July 2014 newsletter
Research Updates Two new reports: “Distributions allowing tiling of staged subjective EU maximizers” and “Non-omniscience, probabilistic inference, and metamathematics.” New analysis: Failures of an embodied intelligence. Book chapter co-authored by Nick Bostrom (Oxford) and Eliezer Yudkowsky (MIRI) now published in...
New report: “Non-omniscience, probabilistic inference, and metamathematics”
UC Berkeley student and MIRI research associate Paul Christiano has released a new report: “Non-omniscience, probabilistic inference, and metamathematics.” Abstract: We suggest a tractable algorithm for assigning probabilities to sentences of first-order logic and updating those probabilities on the basis...
Roger Schell on long-term computer security research
Roger R. Schell is a Professor of Engineering Practice at the University Of Southern California Viterbi School Of Engineering, and a member of the founding faculty for their Masters of Cyber Security degree program. He is internationally recognized for originating...
New chapter in Cambridge Handbook of Artificial Intelligence
The Cambridge Handbook of Artificial Intelligence has been released. It contains a chapter co-authored by Nick Bostrom (Oxford) and Eliezer Yudkowsky (MIRI) called “The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence,” available in PDF here. The abstract reads: The possibility of creating thinking...
