I have nothing against that specifically, but publishing in peer reviewed journals is very costly and slow. Most MIRI funders would think journals are currently biased against the relevant research and that is one thing MIRI is trying to change. Knowing they are publishing papers also wouldn’t speak to the strategy.
Why wouldn’t we just expect them to publish in peer reviewed journals?
AI researchers don’t usually publish in peer reviewed journals, they present at conferences. MIRI has presented lots of papers at conferences.
See here: https://intelligence.org/all-publications/
Over the past few years, MIRI has published a couple dozen conference papers and a handful of journal articles.
I have nothing against that specifically, but publishing in peer reviewed journals is very costly and slow. Most MIRI funders would think journals are currently biased against the relevant research and that is one thing MIRI is trying to change. Knowing they are publishing papers also wouldn’t speak to the strategy.