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...
As requested, we now offer email notification of new technical (math or computer science) papers and reports from MIRI. Simply subscribe to the mailing list below. This list sends one email per new technical paper, and contains only the paper’s...
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!
...Update: we have finished the matching challenge! Thanks everyone! The original post is below. Thanks to the generosity of Peter Thiel, ((Peter Thiel has pledged $150,000 to MIRI unconditionally, and an additional $100,000 conditional on us being able to raise...
In September, MIRI hosted Nick Bostrom at UC Berkeley to discuss his new book Superintelligence. A video and transcript of that talk are now available from BookTV by C-SPAN, which also has a DVD of the event available.
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