Between 2006 and 2009, senior MIRI researcher Eliezer Yudkowsky wrote several hundred essays for the blogs Overcoming Bias and Less Wrong, collectively called “the Sequences.” With two days remaining until Yudkowsky concludes his other well-known rationality book, Harry Potter and...
MIRI researcher Benja Fallenstein recently delivered an invited talk at the March 2015 meeting of the American Physical Society in San Antonio, Texas. Her talk was one of four in a special session on artificial intelligence. Fallenstein’s title was “Beneficial...
Today we release a new annotated bibliography accompanying our new technical agenda, written by Nate Soares. If you’d like to discuss the paper, please do so here. Abstract: How could superintelligent systems be aligned with the interests of humanity? This...
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Recently, MIRI received a targeted donation to improve the AI Impacts website initially created by frequent MIRI collaborator Paul Christiano and part-time MIRI researcher Katja Grace. Collaborating with Paul and Katja, we ported the old content to a more robust...
Wow! Thanks to the generosity of 75+ donors, today we successfully completed our 2014 Winter Matching Challenge—over 3 weeks ahead of our deadline—raising more than $200,000 total (with matching) for our research program. Many, many thanks to everyone who contributed!
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