The Machine Intelligence Research Institute (MIRI) is a non-profit research institute. Its mission is “to develop formal tools for the clean design and analysis of general-purpose AI systems, with the intent of making such systems safer and more reliable when they are developed.”^[1]

History

MIRI was founded in 2000 as the Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence by Brian Atkins, Sabine Atkins and Eliezer Yudkowsky.^[2] It adopted its current name in 2013.^[3]

Funding

As of July 2022, MIRI has received over $14.7 million in funding from Open Philanthropy,^[4] nearly $900,000 from the Survival and Flourishing Fund,^[5][6] and over $670,000 from Effective Altruism Funds.^{[7][8][9][10]}

Further reading

Karnofsky, Holden (2012) Thoughts on the Singularity Institute (SI), LessWrong, May 11.

LessWrong (2020) Machine Intelligence Research Institute (MIRI), LessWrong Wiki, July 9.

Luke Muehlhauser (2015) ‘Machine Intelligence Research Institute’, in Ryan Carey (ed.), The Effective Altruism Handbook, 1st ed., Oxford: The Centre for Effective Altruism, pp. 127-129

Rice, Issa et al. (2017) Timeline of Machine Intelligence Research Institute Full timeline, Timelines Wiki, June 30 (updated 19 June 2022).

External links

Machine Intelligence Research Institute. Official website.

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Donate to MIRI.

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   Machine Intelligence Research Institute (2021) About MIRI, Machine Intelligence Research Institute.

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   Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence (2000) About SIAI, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence.

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   Muehlhauser, Luke (2013) We are now the “Machine Intelligence Research Institute” (MIRI), Machine Intelligence Research Institute, January 30.

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   Open Philanthropy (2022) Grants database: Machine Intelligence Research Institute, Open Philanthropy.

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   Survival and Flourishing Fund (2019a) SFF-2020-H1 S-process recommendations announcement, Survival and Flourishing Fund.

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   Survival and Flourishing Fund (2019b) SFF-2020-H2 S-process recommendations announcement, Survival and Flourishing Fund.

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   Long-Term Future Fund (2018) July 2018: Long-Term Future Fund grants, Effective Altruism Funds, July.

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   Long-Term Future Fund (2018) November 2018: Long-Term Future Fund grants, Effective Altruism Funds, November.

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   Long-Term Future Fund (2019) April 2019: Long-Term Future Fund grants and recommendations, Effective Altruism Funds, April.

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    Long-Term Future Fund (2020) April 2020: Long-Term Future Fund grants and recommendations, Effective Altruism Funds, April.