MIRI is proud to announce several new team members (see our Team page for more details): Benja Fallenstein attended four of MIRI’s past workshops, and has contributed to several novel results in Friendly AI theory, including Löbian cooperation, parametric polymorphism,...
From May 3–11, MIRI will host its 7th Workshop of Logic, Probability, and Reflection. This workshop will focus on decision theory and tiling agents. The participants — all veterans of past workshops — are: Mihály Barasz (Google) Paul Christiano (UC...
We are pleased to release a new ebook, commissioned by MIRI and written by Oxford University’s Stuart Armstrong, and available in EPUB, MOBI, PDF, and from the Amazon and Apple ebook stores. What happens when machines become smarter than humans?...
We’ve published a new Careers page, which advertises current job openings at MIRI. As always, we’re seeking math researchers to make progress on Friendly AI theory. If you’re interested, the next step is not to apply for the position directly,...
Thanks in part to the volunteers at MIRI Volunteers, we can now release the videos, slides, and transcripts for two talks delivered at AGI-11. Both talks represent joint work by Anna Salamon and Carl Shulman, who were MIRI staff at...
Recently, Mt.Gox and Ripple creator Jed McCaleb gave MIRI a large donation in XRP, which is the #2 cryptocurrency in market cap behind Bitcoin. This gift, along with our recent successful fundraiser, should enable us to hire the beginnings of...
