Machine Intelligence Research Institute Inc
Programs and results
What we aim to solve
Our programs
What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?
AI Alignment Research
MIRI exists to ensure that the creation of smarter-than-human Artificial Intelligence has a positive impact.
Where we work
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Goals & Strategy
Learn about the organization's key goals, strategies, capabilities, and progress.
Charting impact
Four powerful questions that require reflection about what really matters - results.
What is the organization aiming to accomplish?
Our 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.
What are the organization's key strategies for making this happen?
We conduct foundational mathematics and computer science research.
What are the organization's capabilities for doing this?
We have an incredible group of very bright research staff.
What have they accomplished so far and what's next?
See our research page (https://intelligence.org/research/) and writing by our staff on the Alignment Forum (https://www.alignmentforum.org) for our past research accomplishments.
We plan to continue to working on the problem described in our Embedde Agency research agenda (https://intelligence.org/embedded-agency/).
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Operations
The people, governance practices, and partners that make the organization tick.
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Machine Intelligence Research Institute Inc
Board of directorsas of 01/16/2023
Mr. Edwin Evans
Linc Global
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Machine Intelligence Research Institute
Blake Borgeson
Recursion Pharmaceuticals
Anna Salamon
Center For Applied Rationality
Nate Soares
Machine Intelligence Research Institute
Edwin Evans
Linc
Board leadership practices
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Board orientation and education
Does the board conduct a formal orientation for new board members and require all board members to sign a written agreement regarding their roles, responsibilities, and expectations? No -
CEO oversight
Has the board conducted a formal, written assessment of the chief executive within the past year ? No -
Ethics and transparency
Have the board and senior staff reviewed the conflict-of-interest policy and completed and signed disclosure statements in the past year? No -
Board composition
Does the board ensure an inclusive board member recruitment process that results in diversity of thought and leadership? No -
Board performance
Has the board conducted a formal, written self-assessment of its performance within the past three years? No