MIRI recently participated in the 2014 Effective Altruism Retreat and Effective Altruism Summit organized by Leverage Research. We gave four talks, participated in a panel, and held “office hours” during which people could stop by and ask us questions. The...
MIRI has arranged for Nick Bostrom to discuss his new book — Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies — on the UC Berkeley campus on September 12th. Bostrom is the director of the Future of Humanity Institute at Oxford University, and is...
Thanks to the generosity of several major donors,† every donation made to MIRI between now and August 15th, 2014 will be matched dollar-for-dollar, up to a total of $200,000! $0 $50K $100K $150K $200K We have reached our matching...
MIRI, CSER, and the philosophy department at Cambridge University are co-organizing a decision theory conference titled Self-Prediction in Decision Theory and AI, to be held in the Faculty of Philosophy at the Cambridge University. The dates are May 13-19, 2015....
To support Friendly AI research around the world, our new MIRIx program funds mathematicians, computer scientists, and formal philosophers to organize their own Friendly AI workshops. A MIRIx workshop can be as simple as gathering some of your friends to...
Recently, Science Friday (hosted by Ira Flatow) featured an interview (page, mp3) with Christof Koch and Stuart Russell about machine superintelligence. Christof Koch is the Chief Scientific Officer of the Allen Institute for Brain Science, and Stuart Russell is a...
