Update December 22: Our donors came together during the fundraiser to get us most of the way to our $750,000 goal. In all, 251 donors contributed $589,248, making this our second-biggest fundraiser to date. Although we fell short of our...
This post is a follow-up to Malo’s 2015 review, sketching out our new 2016-2017 plans. Briefly, our top priorities (in decreasing order of importance) are to (1) make technical progress on the research problems we’ve identified, (2) expand our team,...
As Luke had done in years past (see 2013 in review and 2014 in review), I (Malo) wanted to take some time to review our activities from last year. In the coming weeks Nate will provide a big-picture strategy update....
I’m happy to announce that MIRI is beginning work on a new research agenda, “value alignment for advanced machine learning systems.” Half of MIRI’s team — Patrick LaVictoire, Andrew Critch, and I — will be spending the bulk of our...
The Machine Intelligence Research Institute’s 2015 winter fundraising drive begins today, December 1! Our current progress: Donate Now The drive will run for the month of December, and will help support MIRI’s research efforts aimed at ensuring that...
One week ago, we hit our first fundraising target. I’m thrilled to announce that we’re now closing in on our second target: our fundraising total passed $400,000 today! As we approach target number two, we’re already taking active steps to...
