MIRI Updates
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...
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...
MIRI has released a new technical report by Eliezer Yudkowsky, “Distributions allowing tiling of staged subjective EU maximizers,” which summarizes some work done at MIRI’s May 2014 workshop. Abstract: We consider expected utility maximizers making a staged series of sequential...
MIRI recently interviewed Allan Friedman, co-author of Cybersecurity and Cyberwar: What Everyone Needs to Know. We interviewed Dr. Friedman about cyberwar because the regulatory and social issues raised by the prospect of cyberwar may overlap substantially with those that will...
Dear friends, The SV Gives fundraiser was a big success for many organizations, and especially for MIRI. Thanks so much, everyone! Research Updates Two new papers: “Program equilibrium…” (accepted to the MIPC workshop at AAAI-14) and “Problems of self-reference…” (accepted...
Milind Tambe is Helen N. and Emmett H. Jones Professor in Engineering at the University of Southern California (USC). He is a fellow of AAAI (Association for Advancement of Artificial Intelligence) and ACM (Association for Computing Machinery), as well as...