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October 2018 Newsletter

The AI Alignment Forum has left beta! Dovetailing with the launch, MIRI researchers Scott Garrabrant and Abram Demski will be releasing a new sequence introducing our research over the coming week, beginning here: Embedded Agents. (Shorter illustrated version here.) Other...

September 2018 Newsletter

Summer MIRI Updates: Buck Shlegeris and Ben Weinstein-Raun have joined the MIRI team! Additionally, we ran a successful internship program over the summer, and we’re co-running a new engineer-oriented workshop series with CFAR. On the fundraising side, we received a...

August 2018 Newsletter

Updates New posts to the new AI Alignment Forum: Buridan’s Ass in Coordination Games; Probability is Real, and Value is Complex; Safely and Usefully Spectating on AIs Optimizing Over Toy Worlds MIRI Research Associate Vanessa Kosoy wins a $7500 AI...

July 2018 Newsletter

Updates A new paper: “Forecasting Using Incomplete Models“ New research write-ups and discussions: Prisoners’ Dilemma with Costs to Modeling; Counterfactual Mugging Poker Game; Optimization Amplifies Eliezer Yudkowsky, Paul Christiano, Jessica Taylor, and Wei Dai discuss Alex Zhu’s FAQ for Paul’s...

June 2018 Newsletter

Updates New research write-ups and discussions: Logical Inductors Converge to Correlated Equilibria (Kinda) MIRI researcher Tsvi Benson-Tilsen and Alex Zhu ran an AI safety retreat for MIT students and alumni. Andrew Critch discusses what kind of advice to give to...

May 2018 Newsletter

Updates New research write-ups and discussions: Resource-Limited Reflective Oracles; Computing An Exact Quantilal Policy New at AI Impacts: Promising Research Projects MIRI research fellow Scott Garrabrant and associates Stuart Armstrong and Vanessa Kosoy are among the winners in the second...