MIRI Updates
Conversation with Holden Karnofsky about Future-Oriented Philanthropy
Recently, Eliezer and I had an email conversation with Holden Karnofsky to discuss future-oriented philanthropy, including MIRI. The participants were: Eliezer Yudkowsky (research fellow at MIRI) Luke Muehlhauser (executive director at MIRI) Holden Karnofsky (co-CEO at GiveWell) We then edited...
John Baez on Research Tactics
John Baez is a professor of mathematics at U.C. Riverside. Until recently he worked on higher category theory and quantum gravity. His internet column This Week’s Finds dates back to to 1993 and is sometimes called the world’s first blog....
2013 in Review: Friendly AI Research
This is the 4th part of my personal and qualitative self-review of MIRI in 2013, in which I review MIRI’s 2013 Friendly AI (FAI) research activities. ((What counts as “Friendly AI research” is, naturally, a matter of debate. For most...
MIRI’s February 2014 Newsletter
Dear friends, See below for news on our new ebook, new research, new job openings, and Google’s new AI ethics board. Research Updates New analyses: Robust Cooperation: A Case Study in Friendly AI Research and How Big is the Field...
New eBook: ‘Smarter Than Us’
We are pleased to release a new ebook, commissioned by MIRI and written by Oxford University’s Stuart Armstrong, and available in EPUB, MOBI, PDF, and from the Amazon and Apple ebook stores. What happens when machines become smarter than humans?...
André Platzer on Verifying Cyber-Physical Systems
André Platzer is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. He develops the logical foundations of cyber-physical systems to characterize their fundamental principles and to answer the question how we can trust a computer to control physical...
