MIRI’s 2020 has been a year of experimentation and adjustment. In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, we largely moved our operations to more rural areas in March, and shifted to a greater emphasis on remote work. We took the opportunity...
A big announcement today: MIRI has been awarded a two-year $7,703,750 grant by Open Philanthropy — our largest grant to date. In combination with the ~$1.06M Open Philanthropy is also disbursing to MIRI this year (the second half of their...
Our 2019 fundraiser ended on December 31 with the month-long campaign raising $601,1201 from over2 259 donors. While we didn’t reach our $1M fundraising goal, the amount raised will be a very substantial help to us going into 2020. We’re...
MIRI’s 2019 fundraiser is concluded. Over the past two years, huge donor support has helped us double the size of our AI alignment research team. Hitting our $1M fundraising goal this month will put us in a great position to...
Update January 25, 2020: $77,325 was donated to MIRI through Facebook on Giving Tuesday. $45,915 of this was donated within 13.5 seconds of the Facebook matching event starting at 5:00AM PT and was matched by Facebook. Thank you to everybody...
I’m happy to announce that MIRI has received two major new grants: A two-year grant totaling $2,112,500 from the Open Philanthropy Project. A $600,000 grant from the Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative. The Open Philanthropy Project’s grant was awarded as part...
