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New Transcript: Yudkowsky and Aaronson
In When Will AI Be Created?, I referred to a bloggingheads.tv conversation between Eliezer Yudkowsky and Scott Aaronson. A transcript of that dialogue is now available, thanks to MIRI volunteers Ethan...
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MIRI May Newsletter: Intelligence Explosion Microeconomics and Other...
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...
View ArticleFriendly AI Research as Effective Altruism
MIRI was founded in 2000 on the premise that creating1 Friendly AI might be a particularly efficient way to do as much good as possible. Some developments since then include: The field of “effective...
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New Research Page and Two New Articles
Our new Research page has launched! Our previous research page was a simple list of articles, but the new page describes the purpose of our research, explains four categories of research to which we...
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MIRI’s July 2013 Workshop
From July 8-14, MIRI will host its 3rd Workshop on Logic, Probability, and Reflection. The focus of this workshop will be the Löbian obstacle to self-modifying systems. Participants confirmed so far...
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What is Intelligence?
When asked their opinions about “human-level artificial intelligence” — aka “artificial general intelligence” (AGI)1 — many experts understandably reply that these terms haven’t yet been precisely...
View ArticleResponses to Catastrophic AGI Risk: A Survey
MIRI is self-publishing another technical report that was too lengthy (60 pages) for publication in a journal: Responses to Catastrophic AGI Risk: A Survey. The report, co-authored by past MIRI...
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MIRI’s September 2013 Workshop
From September 7-14, MIRI will host its 4th Workshop on Logic, Probability, and Reflection. The focus of this workshop will be the foundations of decision theory. Participants confirmed so far...
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MIRI Has Moved!
For the past several months, MIRI and its child organization CFAR have been working from a much-too-small office on the outskirts of Berkeley. At the end of June, MIRI and CFAR took over the 3rd floor...
View Article2013 Summer Matching Challenge!
Thanks to the generosity of several major donors,† every donation to the Machine Intelligence Research Institute made from now until August 15th, 2013 will be matched dollar-for-dollar, up to a total...
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James Miller on Unusual Incentives Facing AGI Companies
James D. Miller is an associate professor of economics at Smith College. He is the author of Singularity Rising, Game Theory at Work, and a principles of microeconomics textbook along with several...
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Roman Yampolskiy on AI Safety Engineering
Roman V. Yampolskiy holds a PhD degree from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University at Buffalo. There he was a recipient of a four year NSF IGERT fellowship. Before...
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Nick Beckstead on the Importance of the Far Future
Nick Beckstead recently finished a Ph.D in philosophy at Rutgers University, where he focused on practical and theoretical ethical issues involving future generations. He is particularly interested in...
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MIRI’s December 2013 Workshop
From December 14-20, MIRI will host another Workshop on Logic, Probability, and Reflection. This workshop will focus on the Löbian obstacle, probabilistic logic, and the intersection of logic and...
View ArticleIndex of Transcripts
Volunteers at MIRI Volunteers and elsewhere have helpfully transcribed several audio/video recordings related to MIRI’s work. This post is a continuously updated index of those transcripts. All...
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AI Risk and the Security Mindset
In 2008, security expert Bruce Schneier wrote about the security mindset: Security requires a particular mindset. Security professionals… see the world differently. They can’t walk into a store without...
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“Algorithmic Progress in Six Domains” Released
Today we released a new technical report by visiting researcher Katja Grace called “Algorithmic Progress in Six Domains.” The report summarizes data on algorithmic progress – that is, better...
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Benja Fallenstein on the Löbian Obstacle to Self-Modifying Systems
Benja Fallenstein researches mathematical models of human and animal behavior at Bristol University, as part of the MAD research group and the decision-making research group. Before that, he graduated...
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What is AGI?
One of the most common objections we hear when talking about artificial general intelligence (AGI) is that “AGI is ill-defined, so you can’t really say much about it.” In an earlier post, I pointed out...
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Luke at Quixey on Tuesday (Aug. 20th)
This coming Tuesday, MIRI’s Executive Director Luke Muehlhauser will give a talk at Quixey titled Effective Altruism and the End of the World. If you’re in or near the South Bay, you should come!...
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