Luke Muehlhauser and Bill Hibbard have a new paper (PDF) in the September 2014 issue of Communications of the ACM, the world’s most-read peer-reviewed computer science publication. The title is “Exploratory Engineering in Artificial Intelligence.” Excerpt: We regularly see examples...
UC Berkeley student and MIRI research associate Paul Christiano has released a new report: “Non-omniscience, probabilistic inference, and metamathematics.” Abstract: We suggest a tractable algorithm for assigning probabilities to sentences of first-order logic and updating those probabilities on the basis...
The Cambridge Handbook of Artificial Intelligence has been released. It contains a chapter co-authored by Nick Bostrom (Oxford) and Eliezer Yudkowsky (MIRI) called “The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence,” available in PDF here. The abstract reads: The possibility of creating thinking...
MIRI has released a new technical report by Eliezer Yudkowsky, “Distributions allowing tiling of staged subjective EU maximizers,” which summarizes some work done at MIRI’s May 2014 workshop. Abstract: We consider expected utility maximizers making a staged series of sequential...
Today we release the first technical report from our May 2014 workshop: “Loudness: on priors over preference relations” by Benja Fallenstein and Nisan Stiennon. Other technical reports from that workshop are also in progress. Here’s the abstract for this report:...
We’ve released a new paper recently accepted to the MIPC workshop at AAAI-14: “Program Equilibrium in the Prisoner’s Dilemma via Löb’s Theorem” by LaVictoire et al. This paper is essentially a shortened version of Barasz et al. (2014). For the...
