MIRI Updates
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...
Our mid-2014 strategic plan
Summary Events since MIRI’s April 2013 strategic plan have increased my confidence that we are “headed in the right direction.” During the rest of 2014 we will continue to: Decrease our public outreach efforts, leaving most of that work to...
