Four Background Claims - Machine Intelligence Research Institute

MIRI’s mission is to ensure that the creation of smarter-than-human artificial intelligence has a positive impact. Why is this mission important, and why do we think that there’s work we can do today to help ensure any such thing? In this post and my next one, I’ll try to answer those questions. This post will... Read more »

Four Background Claims - Machine Intelligence Research Institute Skip to content Four Background Claims July 24, 2015 Nate Soares Our summer fundraiser is ongoing. For its duration, we’re writing a number of blog posts to explain what we’re doing and why, and to answer common questions. -->MIRI’s mission is to ensure that the creation of smarter-than-human artificial intelligence has a positive impact. Why is this mission important, and why do we think that there’s work we can do today to help ensure any such thing? In this post and my next one, I’ll try to answer those questions.

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