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| Title (URL linked) | Publication date | Author | Publisher | Affected donors | Affected donees | Affected influencers | Document scope | Cause area | Notes |
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| 2020 Updates and Strategy | 2020-12-21 | Malo Bourgon | Machine Intelligence Research Institute | Machine Intelligence Research Institute | Donee periodic update | AI safety | MIRI provides a general update and includes thoughts on strategy. On the strategy front, MIRI says that it is moving away from the strategy it announced in its 2017 post https://intelligence.org/2017/04/30/2017-updates-and-strategy/ that involved “seeking entirely new low-level foundations for optimization,” “endeavoring to figure out parts of cognition that can be very transparent as cognition,” and “experimenting with some specific alignment problems.” MIRI also provides updated thoughts on remote work during the COVID-19 pandemic and the possibility of relocating its office from Berkeley. | ||
| MIRI’s 2019 Fundraiser | 2019-12-02 | Malo Bourgon | Machine Intelligence Research Institute | Machine Intelligence Research Institute | Donee donation case | AI safety | MIRI announces its 2019 fundraiser, with a target of $1 million for fundraising. The blog post describes MIRI's projected budget, and provides more details on MIRI's activities in 2019, including (1) workshops and scaling up, and (2) research and write-ups. Regarding research, the blog post reaffirms continuation of the nondisclosure-by-default policy announced in 2018 at https://intelligence.org/2018/11/22/2018-update-our-new-research-directions/ The post is link-posted to the Effective Altruism Forum at https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/LCApwxbdX4njYzgdr/miri-s-2019-fundraiser (GW, IR) | ||
| MIRI’s 2018 Fundraiser | 2018-11-26 | Malo Bourgon | Machine Intelligence Research Institute | Dan Smith Aaron Merchak Matt Ashton Stephen Chidwick | Machine Intelligence Research Institute | Donee donation case | AI safety | MIRI announces its 2018 end-of-year fundraising, with Target 1 of $500,000 and Target 2 of $1,200,000. It provides an overview of its 2019 budget and plans to explain the values it has worked out for Target 1 and Target 2. The post also mentions a matching opportunity sponsored by professional poker players Dan Smith, Aaron Merchak, Matt Ashton, and Stephen Chidwick, in partnership with Raising for Effective Giving (REG), which provides matching for donations to MIRI and REG up to $20,000. The post is referenced by Effective Altruism Funds in their grant write-up for a $40,000 grant to MIRI, at https://app.effectivealtruism.org/funds/far-future/payouts/3JnNTzhJQsu4yQAYcKceSi | |
| Fundraising success! | 2018-01-10 | Malo Bourgon | Machine Intelligence Research Institute | Machine Intelligence Research Institute | Donee periodic update | AI safety | MIRI announces the success of its fundraiser, providing information on its top doonors, and thanking everybody who contributed. | ||
| MIRI 2017 Fundraiser and Strategy Update (GW, IR) | 2017-12-15 | Malo Bourgon | Machine Intelligence Research Institute | Machine Intelligence Research Institute | Donee donation case | AI safety | MIRI provides an update on its fundraiser and its strategy in a general-interest forum for people interested in effective altruism. They say the fundraiser is already going quite well, but believe they can still use marginal funds well to expand more. | ||
| MIRI’s 2017 Fundraiser | 2017-12-01 | Malo Bourgon | Machine Intelligence Research Institute | Machine Intelligence Research Institute | Donee donation case | AI safety | Document provides cumulative target amounts for 2017 fundraiser ($625,000 Target 1, $850,000 Target 2, $1,250,000 Target 3) along with what MIRI expects to accomplish at each target level. Funds raised from the Open Philanthropy Project and an anonymous cryptocurrency donor (see https://intelligence.org/2017/07/04/updates-to-the-research-team-and-a-major-donation/ for more) are identified as reasons for the greater financial security and more long-term and ambitious planning. | ||
| A major grant from the Open Philanthropy Project | 2017-09-08 | Malo Bourgon | Machine Intelligence Research Institute | Open Philanthropy | Machine Intelligence Research Institute | Donee periodic update | AI safety | MIRI announces that it has received a three-year grant at $1.25 million per year from the Open Philanthropy Project, and links to the announcement from Open Phil at https://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/global-catastrophic-risks/potential-risks-advanced-artificial-intelligence/machine-intelligence-research-institute-general-support-2017 and notes "The Open Philanthropy Project has expressed openness to potentially increasing their support if MIRI is in a position to usefully spend more than our conservative estimate, if they believe that this increase in spending is sufficiently high-value, and if we are able to secure additional outside support to ensure that the Open Philanthropy Project isn’t providing more than half of our total funding." | |
| Updates to the research team, and a major donation | 2017-07-04 | Malo Bourgon | Machine Intelligence Research Institute | Machine Intelligence Research Institute | Donee periodic update | AI safety | MIRI announces a surprise $1.01 million donation from an Ethereum cryptocurrency investor (2017-05-30) as well as updates related to team and fundraising. |
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