Transparency and Financials
Organizational Goals
The Machine Intelligence Research Institute exists to ensure that smarter-than-human artificially intelligent systems have a positive impact. Because we expect advanced AI systems to be extraordinarily consequential in the long term, we believe it is imperative to work toward a theory of extraordinarily reliable and robust AI agent designs.
For more information, see:
Policies
- Environmental Policy
- Compensation Policy
- Conflict of Interest Policy
- Whistleblower Policy
- Equal Employment Opportunity and Harassment Policies
- Document Retention and Destruction Policy
- Privacy Policy and Terms of Use
Top Contributors
Since its founding in 2000, the Machine Intelligence Research Institute has had 4,500 distinct donors. Our largest contributors, each of whom has given at least $500,000, are:
- An anonymous Ethereum cryptocurrency investor in 2018 and 2021.
- Open Philanthropy, a joint initiative with the philanthropic foundation Good Ventures.
- Vitalik Buterin, the inventor and co-founder of Ethereum.
- The Thiel Foundation, a private foundation funded by Paypal co-founder and venture capitalist Peter Thiel.
- A different anonymous Ethereum cryptocurrency investor in 2017.
- Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative
- Jaan Tallinn, Skype and Kazaa developer and co-founder of the existential risk institutes FLI and CSER.
- Jed McCaleb, developer of the Ripple and Stellar currency exchange systems.
- Loren Merritt, x264 video codec library developer.
- Edwin Evans, Cofounder of Linc Global.
For a list of donors who have given $5,000 or more and wanted to be acknowledged, see our Top Contributors page.
990s
- 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002, 2001, 2000
Note that until February 2013, the Machine Intelligence Research Institute was known as the Singularity Institute.
Reports
- Independent Accountant’s Review Report for 2012
- Independent Accountant’s Review Report for 2013
- Independent Accountant’s Review Report for 2014
- Independent Accountant’s Review Report for 2015
- Independent Auditor’s Report for 2016
- Independent Auditor’s Report for 2017
- Independent Auditor’s Report for 2018
- Independent Auditor’s Report for 2019
- Independent Auditor’s Report for 2020
- Independent Auditor’s Report for 2021
- Independent Auditor’s Report for 2022
- Independent Auditor’s Report for 2023
Our 2024 report will be published here in late 2025.
