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Yudkowsky and Soares Announce Major New Book: “If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies”

A huge announcement today: Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares have written a book attempting to raise the alarm about superintelligent AI for the widest possible audience — If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies. The book comes out this September 16,...

Thoughts on AI 2027

This is part of the MIRI Single Author Series. Pieces in this series represent the beliefs and opinions of their named authors, and do not claim to speak for all of MIRI. Okay, I’m annoyed at people covering AI 2027...

MIRI Communications Team 2024 Recap

MIRI has a long history of thinking about how to make the arrival of smarter-than-human intelligence go well. With trends in this field increasingly pointing to disaster, in early 2024 MIRI announced a strategy shift: We would communicate our understanding...

Announcing MIRI’s new CEO and leadership team

In 2023, MIRI has shifted focus in the direction of broad public communication—see, for example, our recent TED talk, our piece in TIME magazine “Pausing AI Developments Isn’t Enough. We Need to Shut it All Down”, and our appearances on...

Visible Thoughts Project and Bounty Announcement

(Update Jan. 12, 2022: We released an FAQ last month, with more details. Last updated Jan. 7.) (Update Jan. 19, 2022: We now have an example of a successful partial run, which you can use to inform how you do...

Our all-time largest donation, and major crypto support from Vitalik Buterin

I’m thrilled to announce two major donations to MIRI!   First, a long-time supporter has given MIRI by far our largest donation ever: $2.5 million per year over the next four years, and an additional ~$5.6 million in 2025. This...