Machine Intelligence Research Institute
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| Formation | 2000 |
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| Type | Nonprofit research institute |
| Legal status | 501(c)(3) tax exempt charity |
| Purpose | Research into friendly artificial intelligence |
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| Edwin Evans | |
| Nate Soares | |
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Key people
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Eliezer Yudkowsky |
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Revenue
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$1.7 million (2013) |
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Staff
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14 |
| Website | intelligence |
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Formerly called
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Singularity Institute, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence |
The Machine Intelligence Research Institute (MIRI), formerly the Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence (SIAI), is a non-profit organization founded in 2000 to research safety issues related to the development of Strong AI. Nate Soares is the executive director, having taken over from Luke Muehlhauser in May 2015.
MIRI's technical agenda states that new formal tools are needed in order to ensure the safe operation of future generations of AI software (friendly artificial intelligence). The organization hosts regular research workshops to develop mathematical foundations for this project, and has been cited as one of several academic and nonprofit groups studying long-term AI outcomes.
In 2000, AI theorist Eliezer Yudkowsky and Internet entrepreneurs Brian and Sabine Atkins founded the Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence to "help humanity prepare for the moment when machine intelligence exceeded human intelligence". In early 2005, SIAI relocated from Atlanta, Georgia to Silicon Valley. From 2006 to 2012, the Institute collaborated with Singularity University to produce the Singularity Summit, a science and technology conference. Speakers included Steven Pinker, Peter Norvig, Stephen Wolfram, John Tooby, James Randi, and Douglas Hofstadter.
In mid-2012, the Institute spun off a new organization called the Center for Applied Rationality, whose focus is on using ideas from cognitive science to improve people's effectiveness in their daily lives. Having previously shortened its name to "Singularity Institute", in January 2013 SIAI changed its name to the "Machine Intelligence Research Institute" in order to avoid confusion with Singularity University. MIRI gave control of the Singularity Summit to Singularity University and shifted its focus toward research in mathematics and theoretical computer science.
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