MIRI Updates
MIRI has arranged for Nick Bostrom to discuss his new book — Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies — on the UC Berkeley campus on September 12th. Bostrom is the director of the Future of Humanity Institute at Oxford University, and is...
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...
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....
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...
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 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...
