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| Title (URL linked) | Publication date | Author | Publisher | Affected donors | Affected donees | Document scope | Cause area | Notes |
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| New grants from the Open Philanthropy Project and BERI | 2019-04-01 | Rob Bensinger | Machine Intelligence Research Institute | Open Philanthropy Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative | Machine Intelligence Research Institute | Donee periodic update | AI safety | MIRI announces two grants to it: a two-year grant https://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/global-catastrophic-risks/potential-risks-advanced-artificial-intelligence/machine-intelligence-research-institute-general-support-2019 totaling $2,112,500 from the Open Philanthropy Project, with half of it disbursed in 2019 and the other half disbursed in 2020. The amount disbursed in 2019 (of a little over $1.06 million) is on top of the $1.25 million already committed by the Open Philanthropy Project as part of the 3-year $3.75 million grant https://intelligence.org/2017/11/08/major-grant-open-phil/ The $1.06 million in 2020 may be supplemented by further grants from the Open Philanthropy Project. The grant size from the Open Philanthropy Project was determined by the Committee for Effective Altruism Support. The post also notes that the Open Philanthropy Project plans to determine future grant sizes using the Committee. MIRI expects the grant money to play an important role in decision-making as it executes on growing its research team as described in its 2018 strategy update post https://intelligence.org/2018/11/22/2018-update-our-new-research-directions/ and fundraiser post https://intelligence.org/2018/11/26/miris-2018-fundraiser/ |
| End-of-the-year matching challenge! | 2017-12-14 | Rob Bensinger | Machine Intelligence Research Institute | Christian Calderon Marius van Voorden | Machine Intelligence Research Institute | Donee donation case | AI safety | MIRI gives an update on how its fundraising efforts are going, noting that it has met its first fundraising target, listing two major donations (Christian Calderon: $367,574 and Marius van Voorden: $59K), and highlighting the 2017 charity drive where donations up to $1 million to a list of charities including MIRI will be matched. |
| I’ve noticed that this misconception is still floating around | 2017-08-30 | Rob Bensinger | Machine Intelligence Research Institute | Reasoning supplement | AI safety | Post notes an alleged popular misconception that the reason to focus on AI risk is that it is low-probability but high-impact, but MIRI researchers assign a medium-to-high probability of AI risk in the medium-term future. | ||
| 2017 Updates and Strategy | 2017-04-30 | Rob Bensinger | Machine Intelligence Research Institute | Machine Intelligence Research Institute | Donee periodic update | AI safety | MIRI provides updates on its progress as an organization and outlines its strategy and budget for the coming year. Key update is that recent developments in AI have made them increase the probability of AGI before 2035 by a little bit. MIRI has also been in touch with researchers at FAIR, DeepMind, and OpenAI. | |
| Crunch time!! The 2016 fundraiser for the AI safety group I work at, MIRI, is going a lot slower than expected | 2016-10-25 | Rob Bensinger | Machine Intelligence Research Institute | Donee donation case | AI safety | Rob Bensinger, Research Communications Director at MIRI, takes to his personal Facebook to ask people to chip in for the MIRI fundraiser, which is going slower than he and MIRI expected, and may not meet its target. The final comment by Bensinger notes that $582,316 out of the target of $750,000 was raised, and that about $260k of that was raised after his post, so he credits the final push for helping MIRI move closer to its fundraising goals. | ||
| Ask MIRI Anything (AMA) (GW, IR) | 2016-10-11 | Rob Bensinger | Machine Intelligence Research Institute | Machine Intelligence Research Institute | Donee AMA | AI safety | Rob Bensinger, the Research Communications Manager at MIRI, hosts an Ask Me Anything (AMA) on the Effective Altruism Forum during the October 2016 Fundraiser. |
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