The Machine Intelligence Research Institute’s 2015 winter fundraising drive begins today, December 1! Our current progress: Donate Now The drive will run for the month of December, and will help support MIRI’s research efforts aimed at ensuring that...
In January, nearly 200 public intellectuals submitted essays in response to the 2015 Edge.org question, “What Do You Think About Machines That Think?” (available online). The essay prompt began: In recent years, the 1980s-era philosophical discussions about artificial intelligence (AI)—whether...
Our summer fundraising drive is now finished. We raised a grand total of $631,957, from 263 donors. ((That total may change over the next few days if we receive contributions that were initiated before the end the fundraiser.)) This is...
Today is the final day of MIRI’s summer fundraising drive, and as of this morning, our total stands at $543,373. Our donors’ efforts have made this fundraiser the biggest one we’ve ever run, and we’re hugely grateful. As our fundraiser...
MIRI is at Effective Altruism Global! A number of the talks can be watched online at the EA Global Livestream. We have a new MIRI Frequently Asked Questions page, which we’ll be expanding as we continue getting new questions over...
This last year has been pretty astounding. Since its release twelve months ago, Nick Bostrom’s book Superintelligence has raised awareness about the challenge that MIRI exists to address: long-term risks posed by smarter-than-human artificially intelligent systems. Academic and industry leaders...
