For the past several months, MIRI and its child organization CFAR have been working from a much-too-small office on the outskirts of Berkeley. At the end of June, MIRI and CFAR took over the 3rd floor of 2030 Addison St....
From September 7-13, MIRI will host its 4th Workshop on Logic, Probability, and Reflection. The focus of this workshop will be the foundations of decision theory. Participants confirmed so far include: Paul Christiano (UC Berkeley) Wei Dai (independent) Gary Drescher...
From July 8-14, MIRI will host its 3rd Workshop on Logic, Probability, and Reflection. The focus of this workshop will be the Löbian obstacle to self-modifying systems. Participants confirmed so far include: Andrew Critch (just finished his math PhD at...
In When Will AI Be Created?, I referred to a bloggingheads.tv conversation between Eliezer Yudkowsky and Scott Aaronson. A transcript of that dialogue is now available, thanks to MIRI volunteers Ethan Dickinson, Daniel Kokotajlo, and Rick Schwall. See also the...
In When Will AI Be Created?, I named four methods that might improve our forecasts of AI and other important technologies. Two of these methods were explicit quantification and leveraging aggregation, as exemplified by IARPA’s ACE program, which aims to...
MIRI currently has a few dozen volunteer advisors on a wide range of subjects, but we need more! If you’d like to help MIRI pursue its mission more efficiently, please sign up to be a MIRI advisor. If you sign...
