Greetings from the Executive Director Dear friends, The big news this month is that Paul Christiano and Eliezer Yudkowsky are giving talks at Harvard and MIT about the work coming out of MIRI’s workshops, on Oct. 15th and 17th, respectively...
Greetings from the Executive Director Dear friends, With your help, we finished our largest fundraiser ever, raising $400,000 for our research program. My thanks to everyone who contributed! We continue to publish non-math research to our blog, including...
Greetings from the Executive Director Dear friends, My personal thanks to everyone who has contributed to our ongoing fundraiser. We are 74% of the way to our goal! I’ve been glad to hear from many of you that you’re thrilled...
Greetings from the Executive Director Dear friends, Another busy month! Since our last newsletter, we’ve published 3 new papers and 2 new “analysis” blog posts, we’ve significantly improved our website (especially the Research page), we’ve relocated to downtown Berkeley, and...
Greetings From the Executive Director Dear friends, It’s been a busy month! Mostly, we’ve been busy publishing things. As you’ll see below, Singularity Hypotheses has now been published, and it includes four chapters by MIRI researchers or research associates. We’ve...
Greetings from The Executive Director Dear friends, These are exciting times at MIRI. After years of awareness-raising and capacity-building, we have finally transformed ourselves into a research institute focused on producing the mathematical research required to build trustworthy (or “human-friendly”)...