Timeline of Machine Intelligence Research Institute

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This is a timeline of Machine Intelligence Research Institute. Machine Intelligence Research Institute (MIRI) is a nonprofit organization that does work related to AI safety.

Sample questions

This is an experimental section that provides some sample questions for readers, similar to reading questions that might come with a book. Some readers of this timeline might come to the page aimlessly and might not have a good idea of what they want to get out of the page. Having some "interesting" questions can help in reading the page with more purpose and in getting a sense of why the timeline is an important tool to have.

The following are some interesting questions that can be answered by reading this timeline:

  • Which Singularity Summits did MIRI host, and when did they happen? (Sort by the "Event type" column and look at the rows labeled "Conference".)
  • What was MIRI up to for the first ten years of its existence (before Luke Muehlhauser joined, before Holden Karnofsky wrote his critique of the organization)? (Scan the years 2000–2009.)
  • How has MIRI's explicit mission changed over the years? (Sort by the "Event type" column and look at the rows labeled "Mission".)

The following are some interesting questions that are difficult or impossible to answer just by reading the current version of this timeline, but might be possible to answer using a future version of this timeline:

  • When did some big donations to MIRI take place (for instance, the one by Peter Thiel)?
  • Has MIRI "done more things" between 2010–2013 or between 2014–2017? (More information)

Big picture

Time period Development summary More details
1998–2002 Various publications related to creating a superhuman AI Eliezer Yudkowsky writes various documents about designing a superhuman AI during this period, including "Coding a Transhuman AI", "The Plan to Singularity", and "Creating Friendly AI". The Flare Programming Language project launches to aid the creation of a superhuman AI.
2004–2009 Tyler Emerson's tenure as executive director Under Emerson's leadership, MIRI starts the Singularity Summit, moves to the San Francisco Bay Area, and lands Peter Thiel and Jaan Tallinn as donors and enthusiastic endorsers.
2006–2009 Modern rationalist community forms Overcoming Bias is created, LessWrong is created, Eliezer Yudkowsky writes the Sequences, and so on.
2006–2012 The Singularity Summits take place annually After the summit in 2012, the organization renames itself from "Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence" to the current "Machine Intelligence Research Institute" and sells the Singularity Summit to Singularity University.
2009–2012 Michael Vassar's tenure as president
2011–2015 Luke Muehlhauser's tenure as executive director Muehlhauser would be credited with significantly turning MIRI around, improving professionalism and reputation with donors. The name change, shift in focus to research, and improvement of relations with the nascent effective altruism community and the AI research community occur under his watch.[1][2][3]
2013–present Change of focus MIRI changes focus to put less effort into public outreach and shift its research to Friendly AI math research.
2015–present Nate Soares's tenure as executive director Soares continues to move MIRI forward in the direction that it shifted to under Muehlhauser, with a focus on AI safety research, and increased coordination with the AI safety and AI risk communities.

Visual data

Wikipedia desktop pageviews across the different names

The image below shows desktop pageviews of the page Machine Intelligence Research Institute and its predecessor pages, "Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence" and "Singularity Institute".[4] The change in names occurred on these dates:[5][6]

  • February 1, 2013: Page moved from "Singularity Institute" to "Machine Intelligence Research Institute" with both old names redirecting to the new name
  • April 16, 2012: Page moved from "Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence" to "Singularity Institute" with the old name redirecting to the new name
  • December 23, 2011: Two pages "Singularity Institute" and "Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence" merged into single page "Singularty Institute for Artificial Intelligence"

The red vertical line (for June 2015) represents a change in the method of estimating pageviews; specifically, pageviews by bots and spiders are excluded for months on the right of the line.

MIRI Wikipedia desktop pageviews.png

Full timeline

Year Month and date Event type Details
1979 September 11 Eliezer Yudkowsky is born.[7]
1996 November 18 Eliezer Yudkowsky writes the first version of "Staring into the Singularity".[8]
1998 Publication The initial version of "Coding a Transhuman AI" (CaTAI) is published.[9]
1999 March 11 The Singularitarian mailing list is launched. The mailing list page notes that although hosted on MIRI's website, the mailing list "should be considered as being controlled by the individual Eliezer Yudkowsky".[10]
1999 September 17 The Singularitarian mailing list is first informed (by Yudkowsky?) of "The Plan to Singularity" (called "Creating the Singularity" at the time).[11]
2000–2003 Eliezer Yudkowsky's "coming of age" (including his "naturalistic awakening", in which he realizes that a superintelligence would not necessarily follow human morality) takes place during this period.[12][13][14]
2000 January 1 Publication "The Plan to Singularity" version 1.0 is written and published by Eliezer Yudkowsky, and posted to the Singularitarian, Extropians, and transhuman mailing lists.[11]
2000 January 1 Publication "The Singularitarian Principles" version 1.0 by Eliezer Yudkowsky is published.[15]
2000 February 6 The first email is sent on SL4 ("Shock Level Four"), a mailing list about transhumanism, superintelligent AI, existential risks, and so on.[16][17]
2000 May 18 Publication "Coding a Transhuman AI" (CaTAI) version 2.0a is "rushed out in time for the Foresight Gathering".[18]
2000 July 27 Mission Machine Intelligence Research Institute is founded as the Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence by Brian Atkins, Sabine Atkins (then Sabine Stoeckel) and Eliezer Yudkowsky. The organization's mission ("organization's primary exempt purpose" on Form 990) at the time is "Create a Friendly, self-improving Artificial Intelligence"; this mission would be in use during 2000–2006 and would change in 2007.[19]:3[20]
2000 September 1 Publication Large parts of "The Plan to Singularity" are marked obsolete "due to formation of Singularity Institute, and due to fundamental shifts in AI strategy caused by publication of CaTAI [Coding a Transhuman AI] 2".[11]
2000 September 7 Publication "Coding a Transhuman AI" (CaTAI) version 2.2.0 is published.[18]
2000 September 14 The first Wayback Machine snapshot of MIRI's website is from this day, using the singinst.org domain name.[21]
2001 April 8 MIRI begins accepting donations after receiving tax-exempt status.[22]
2001 April 18 Publication Version 0.9 of "Creating Friendly AI" is released.[23]
2001 June 14 Publication The "SIAI Guidelines on Friendly AI" are published.[24]
2001 June 15 Publication Version 1.0 of "Creating Friendly AI" is published.[25][23]
2001 July 23 Project MIRI announces that it has formally launched the development of the Flare programming language under Dmitriy Myshkin.[26]
2001 December 21 Domain MIRI obtains the flare.org domain name for its Flare language project.[26]
2002 March 8 AI box The first AI box experiment by Eliezer Yudkowsky, against Nathan Russell as gatekeeper, takes place. The AI is released.[27]
2002 April 7 Publication A draft of "Levels of Organization in General Intelligence" is announced on SL4.[28][29]
2002 July 4–5 AI box The second AI box experiment by Eliezer Yudkowsky, against David McFadzean as gatekeeper, takes place. The AI is released.[30]
2002 September 6 Staff Christian Rovner is appointed as MIRI's volunteer coordinator.[26]
2002 October 1 MIRI "releases a major new site upgrade" with various new pages.[26]
2002 October 7 Project MIRI announces the creation of its volunteers mailing list.[26]
2003 Project The Flare Programming language project is officially canceled.[31]
2003 Publication Eliezer Yudkowsky's "An Intuitive Explanation of Bayesian Reasoning" is published.[32]
2004 March 4–11 Staff MIRI announces Tyler Emerson as executive director.[33][34]
2004 April 7 Staff Michael Anissimov is announced as MIRI's advocacy director.[35]
2004 April 14 Outside review The first version of the Wikipedia page for MIRI is created.[36]
2004 May Publication Eliezer Yudkowsky's paper "Coherent Extrapolated Volition" is published around this time.[37] It is originally called "Collective Volition", and is announced on the MIRI website on August 16.[38][33]
2004 August 5–8 Conference TransVision 2004 takes place. TransVision is the World Transhumanist Association's annual event. MIRI is a sponsor for the event.[33]
2005 January 4 Publication "A Technical Explanation of Technical Explanation" is published.[39] It is announced on the MIRI news page on this day.[33]
2005 Conference MIRI does "AI and existential risk presentations at Stanford, Immortality Institute's Life Extension Conference, and the Terasem Foundation".[40]
2005 Publication Eliezer Yudkowsky writes chapters for Global Catastrophic Risks, edited by Nick Bostrom and Milan M. Ćirković.[40] The book would be published in 2008.
2005 February 2 MIRI relocates from the Atlanta metropolitan area of Georgia to the Bay Area of California.[33]
2005 July 22–24 Conference TransVision 2005 takes place in Caracas, Venezuela. MIRI is a sponsor for the event.[33]
2005 August 21 AI box The third AI box experiment by Eliezer Yudkowsky, against Carl Shulman as gatekeeper, takes place. The AI is released.[41]
2005–2006 December 20, 2005 – February 19, 2006 Financial The 2006 $100,000 Singularity Challenge, a fundraiser in which Peter Thiel matches donations up to $100,000, takes place. The fundraiser successfully matches the $100,000 amount.[33][42]
2006 Publication "Twelve Virtues of Rationality" is published.[43]
2006 February 13 Peter Thiel joins MIRI's Board of Advisors.[33]
2006 May 13 Conference The first Singularity Summit takes place at Stanford University.[44][45][46]
2006 November Robin Hanson starts Overcoming Bias.[47]
2007 Mission MIRI's organization mission ("Organization's Primary Exempt Purpose" on Form 990) changes to: "To develop safe, stable and self-modifying Artificial General Intelligence. And to support novel research and to foster the creation of a research community focused on Artificial General Intelligence and Safe and Friendly Artificial Intelligence."[48] This mission would be used in 2008 and 2009 as well.
2007 Project MIRI's outreach blog is started.[40]
2007 Project MIRI's Interview Series is started.[40]
2007 May 16 Project MIRI's introductory video is published on YouTube.[49][40]
2007 September 8–9 Conference The Singularity Summit 2007 takes place in the San Francisco Bay Area.[44][50][51]
2008 Publication "The Simple Truth" is published.[52]
2008 Project MIRI expands its Interview Series.[40]
2008 Project MIRI begins its summer intern program.[40]
2008 Project OpenCog is founded "via a grant from the [MIRI], and the donation from Novamente LLC of a large body of software code and software designs developed during the period 2001–2007".[53] (See also OpenCog § Relation to Singularity Institute.)
2008 October 25 Conference The Singularity Summit 2008 takes place in San Jose.[54][55]
2008 November–December Outside review The AI-Foom debate between Robin Hanson and Eliezer Yudkowsky takes place. The blog posts from the debate would later be turned into an ebook by MIRI.[56][57]
2009 Project MIRI establishes the Visiting Fellows Program.[40]
2009 (early) Staff Executive director Tyler Emerson departs MIRI.[58]
2009 (early) Staff Michael Anissimov is hired as a media director.[58] (Since he was advocacy director as far back as 2004, it's not clear if he left the organization and came back, or if just changed positions.)
2009 February Project Eliezer Yudkowsky starts LessWrong using as seed material his posts on Overcoming Bias.[59] On the 2009 accomplishments page, MIRI describes LessWrong as being "important to the Singularity Institute's work towards a beneficial Singularity in providing an introduction to issues of cognitive biases and rationality relevant for careful thinking about optimal philanthropy and many of the problems that must be solved in advance of the creation of provably human-friendly powerful artificial intelligence". And: "Besides providing a home for an intellectual community dialoguing on rationality and decision theory, Less Wrong is also a key venue for SIAI recruitment. Many of the participants in SIAI's Visiting Fellows Program first discovered the organization through Less Wrong."[58]
2009 February 16 Staff Michael Vassar announces himself as president of MIRI.[60]
2009 April Publication Eliezer Yudkowsky completes the Sequences.[58]
2009 August 13 Social media The Singularity Institute Twitter account, singinst, is created.[61]
2009 October Project A website maintained by MIRI, The Uncertain Future, first appears around this time.[62][63] The goal of the website is to "allow those interested in future technology to form their own rigorous, mathematically consistent model of how the development of advanced technologies will affect the evolution of civilization over the next hundred years".[64] Work on the project started in 2008.[65]
2009 October 3–4 Conference The Singularity Summit 2009 takes place in New York.[66][67]
2009 November Financial "Misappropriation of assets, by a contractor, was discovered in November 2009."[68]
2009 December Staff Amy Willey joins MIRI as Chief Compliance Officer.[58]
2009 December 11 Influence The third edition of Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach by Stuart J. Russell and Peter Norvig is published. In this edition, for the first time, Friendly AI is mentioned and Eliezer Yudkowsky is cited.
2009 December 12 Project The Uncertain Future reaches beta and is announced on the MIRI blog.[69]
2009 Financial MIRI reports $118,803.00 in theft during this year.[40][70][71][72] The theft was by two former employees.[73]
2010 Mission The organization mission changes to: "To develop the theory and particulars of safe self-improving Artificial Intelligence; to support novel research and foster the creation of a research community focused on safe Artificial General Intelligence; and to otherwise improve the probability of humanity surviving future technological advances."[74] This mission would be used in 2011 and 2012 as well.
2010 February 28 Publication The first chapter of Eliezer Yudkowsky's fan fiction Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality is published. The book would be published as a serial concluding on March 14, 2015.[75][76] The fan fiction would become the initial contact with MIRI of several larger donors to MIRI.[77]
2010 June 17 Popular culture Zendegi, a science fiction book by Greg Egan, is published. The book includes a character called Nate Caplan (partly inspired by Eliezer Yudkowsky and Robin Hanson), a website called Overpowering Falsehood dot com (partly inspired by Overcoming Bias and LessWrong), and a Benign Superintelligence Bootstrap Project, inspired by the Singularity Institute's friendly AI project.[78][79][80]
2010 August 14–15 Conference The Singularity Summit 2010 takes place in San Francisco.[81]
2010 December 21 Social media The first post on the MIRI Facebook page is from this day.[82][83]
2010–2011 December 21, 2010 – January 20, 2011 Financial The Tallinn–Evans $125,000 Singularity Challenge takes place. The Challenge is a fundraiser in which Edwin Evans and Jaan Tallinn match each dollar donated to MIRI up to $125,000.[84][85]
2011 February 4 Project The Uncertain Future is open-sourced.[65]
2011 February Outside review Holden Karnofsky of GiveWell has a conversation with MIRI staff. The conversation reveals the existence of a "Persistent Problems Group" at MIRI, which will supposedly "assemble a blue-ribbon panel of recognizable experts to make sense of the academic literature on very applicable, popular, but poorly understood topics such as diet/nutrition".[86] On April 30, Karnofsky would post the conversation to the GiveWell mailing list.[87]
2011 April Staff Luke Muehlhauser begins as an intern at MIRI.[88]
2011 May 10 – June 24 Outside review Holden Karnofsky of GiveWell and Jaan Tallinn (with Dario Amodei being present in the initial phone conversation) correspond regarding MIRI's work. The correspondence is posted to the GiveWell mailing list on July 18.[89]
2011 June 24 Domain A Wayback Machine snapshot on this day shows that singularity.org has turned into a GoDaddy.com placeholder.[90] Before this, the domain is some blog, most likely unrelated to MIRI.[91]
2011 July 18 – October 20 Domain At least during this period, the singularity.org domain name redirects to singinst.org/singularityfaq.[91]
2011 September 6 Domain The first Wayback Machine capture of singularityvolunteers.org is from this day.[92] For a time the site is used to coordinate volunteer efforts.
2011 October 15–16 Conference The Singularity Summit 2011 takes place in New York.[93]
2011 October 17 Social media The Singularity Summit YouTube account, SingularitySummits, is created.[94]
2011 November Staff Luke Muehlhauser is appointed executive director of MIRI.[95]
2011 December 12 Project Luke Muehlhauser announces the creation of Friendly-AI.com, a website introducing the idea of Friendly AI.[96]
2012 Staff Michael Vassar leaves MIRI to found MetaMed, a personalized medical advising company.[97]
2012 February 4 – May 4 Domain At least during this period, singularity.org redirects to singinst.org.[98]
2012 May 8 MIRI's April 2012 progress report is published, in which the Center for Applied Rationality's name is announced. Until this point, CFAR was known as the "Rationality Group" or "Rationality Org".[99]
2012 May 11 Outside review Holden Karnofsky publishes "Thoughts on the Singularity Institute (SI)" on LessWrong. The post explains why GiveWell does not plan to recommend the Singularity Institute.[100]
2012 June 16–28 Domain Sometime during this period, singinst.org begins redirecting to singularity.org, both being controlled by MIRI.[101]
2012 August 15 Luke Muehlhauser does an "ask me anything" (AMA) on reddit's r/Futurology.[102]
2012 September (approximate) Project MIRI begins to partner with Youtopia as its volunteer management platform.[103]
2012 October 13–14 Conference The Singularity Summit 2012 takes place.[104][105]
2012 November 11–18 Workshop The 1st Workshop on Logic, Probability, and Reflection takes place.[106]
2012 December 6 Singularity University announces that it has acquired the Singularity Summit from MIRI.[107] Joshua Fox praises the move, noting: "The Singularity Summit was always off-topic for SI: more SU-like than SI-like."[108] However, Singularity University would not continue the original tradition of the Summit,[109] and the later EA Global conference (organized in some years by Amy Willey Labenz who used to work at MIRI) would inherit some of the characteristics of the Singularity Summit.[110]
2013 Mission The organization mission changes to: "To ensure that the creation of smarter-than-human intelligence has a positive impact. Thus, the charitable purpose of the organization is to: a) perform research relevant to ensuring that smarter-than-human intelligence has a positive impact; b) raise awareness of this important issue; c) advise researchers, leasers and laypeople around the world; d) as necessary, implement a smarter-than-human intelligence with humane, stable goals."[111] This mission would stay the same for 2014 and 2015.
2013–2014 Project MIRI conducts a lot of conversations during this period. Out of 80 conversations listed as of July 14, 2017, 75 are from this period (19 in 2013 and 56 in 2014).[112] In the "2014 in review" post on MIRI's blog Luke Muehlhauser writes: "Nearly all of the interviews were begun in 2013 or early 2014, even if they were not finished and published until much later. Mid-way through 2014, we decided to de-prioritize expert interviews, due to apparent diminishing returns."[113]
2013 January Staff Michael Anissimov leaves MIRI.[114]
2013 January 30 MIRI announces that it has renamed itself from "Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence" to "Machine Intelligence Research Institute".[115]
2013 February 1 Publication Facing the Intelligence Explosion by Luke Muehlhauser is published by MIRI.[116]
2013 February 11 – March 2 Domain Sometime during this period, MIRI's new website at intelligence.org begins to function.[117][118]
2013 March 2 – July 4 Domain At least during this period, singularity.org redirects to intelligence.org, MIRI's new domain.[119]
2013 April 3 Publication Singularity Hypotheses: A Scientific and Philosophical Assessment is published by Springer. The book contains chapters written by MIRI researchers and research associates.[120][121]
2013 April 3–24 Workshop The 2nd Workshop on Logic, Probability, and Reflection takes place.[106]
2013 April 13 Strategy MIRI publishes an update on its strategy on its blog. In the blog post, MIRI executive director Luke Muehlhauser states that MIRI plans to put less effort into public outreach and shift its research to Friendly AI math research.[122]
2013 April 18 Staff MIRI announces that executive assistant Ioven Fables is leaving MIRI due to changes in MIRI's operational needs (from its transition to a research-oriented organization).[123]
2013 July 4 Social media MIRI's Twitter account, MIRIBerkeley, is created.[124]
2013 July 4 Social media The earliest post on MIRI's Google Plus account, IntelligenceOrg, is from this day.[125][126]
2013 July 8–14 Workshop The 3rd Workshop on Logic, Probability, and Reflection takes place.[106]
2013 August 4 Domain By this point, singularity.org is operated by Singularity University.[127]
2013 September 1 Publication The Hanson-Yudkowsky AI-Foom Debate is published as an ebook by MIRI.[128]
2013 September 7–13 Workshop The 4th Workshop on Logic, Probability, and Reflection takes place.[106]
2013 October 25 Social media The MIRI YouTube account, MIRIBerkeley, is created.[129]
2013 October 27 Outside review MIRI meets with Holden Karnofsky, Jacob Steinhardt, and Dario Amodei for a discussion about MIRI's organizational strategy.[130][131]
2013 November 23–29 Workshop The 5th Workshop on Logic, Probability, and Reflection takes place.[106]
2013 December 10 Domain The first working Wayback Machine snapshot of the MIRI Volunteers website, available at mirivolunteers.org, is from this day.[132]
2013 December 14–20 Workshop The 6th Workshop on Logic, Probability, and Reflection takes place.[106] This is the first workshop attended by Nate Soares (at Google at the time), who would later becomes executive director of MIRI.[1][133]
2014 January (approximate) Financial Jed McCaleb, the creator of Ripple and original founder of Mt. Gox, makes a donation worth $500,000 in XRP.[134]
2014 January 16 Outside review MIRI meets with Holden Karnofsky of GiveWell for a discussion on existential risk strategy.[135][131]
2014 February 1 Publication Smarter Than Us: The Rise of Machine Intelligence by Stuart Armstrong is published by MIRI.[136]
2014 March–May Influence Future of Life Institute (FLI) is founded.[137] MIRI is a parter organization to FLI.[138] The Singularity Summit, MIRI's annual conference from 2006–2012, also played "a key causal role in getting Max Tegmark interested and the FLI created".[139] "Tallinn, a co-founder of FLI and of the Cambridge Centre for the Study of Existential Risk (CSER), cites MIRI as a key source for his views on AI risk".[140]
2014 March 12–13 Staff Some recent hires at MIRI are announced. Among the new team members is Nate Soares, who would become MIRI's executive director in 2015.[133] MIRI also hosts an Expansion Party to announce these hires to local supporters.[141][142][143]
2014 May 3–11 Workshop The 7th Workshop on Logic, Probability, and Reflection takes place.[106]
2014 July–September Influence Nick Bostrom's book Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies is published. While Bostrom has never worked for MIRI, he is a research advisor to MIRI. MIRI also contributed substantially to the publication of the book.[139]
2014 July 4 Project Earliest evidence of AI Impacts existing is from this day.[144]
2014 August Project The AI Impacts website launches.[145]
2014 November 4 Project The Intelligent Agent Foundations Forum, run by MIRI, is launched.[146]
2015 January Project AI Impacts rolls out a new website.[147]
2015 January 2–5 Conference The Future of AI: Opportunities and Challenges, an AI safety conference, takes place in Puerto Rico. The conference is organized by the Future of Life Institute, but several MIRI staff (including Luke Muehlhauser, Eliezer Yudkowsky, and Nate Soares) attend.[148] Nate Soares would later call this the "turning point" of when top academics begin to focus on AI risk.[149]
2015 March 11 Influence Rationality: From AI to Zombies is published. It is an ebook of Eliezer Yudkowsky's series of blog posts, called "the Sequences".[150][151][152]
2015 May 4–6 Workshop The 1st Introductory Workshop on Logical Decision Theory takes place.[106]
2015 May 6 Staff Executive director Luke Muehlhauser announces his departure from MIRI, for a position as a Research Analyst at the Open Philanthropy Project. The announcement also states that Nate Soares will be the new executive director.[153]
2015 May 13–19 Conference Along with the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk, MIRI organizes the Self-prediction in Decision Theory and Artificial Intelligence Conference. Several MIRI researchers present at the conference.[154]
2015 May 29–31 Workshop The 1st Introductory Workshop on Logical Uncertainty takes place.[106]
2015 June 3–4 Staff Nate Soares begins as executive director of MIRI.[1]
2015 June 11 Nate Soares, executive director of MIRI, does an "ask me anything" (AMA) on the Effective Altruism Forum.[155]
2015 June 12–14 Workshop The 2nd Introductory Workshop on Logical Decision Theory takes place.[106]
2015 June 26–28 Workshop The 1st Introductory Workshop on Vingean Reflection takes place.[106]
2015 July 7–26 Project The MIRI Summer Fellows program 2015, run by the Center for Applied Rationality, takes place.[156] This program is apparently "relatively successful at recruiting staff for MIRI".[157]
2015 August 7–9 Workshop The 2nd Introductory Workshop on Logical Uncertainty takes place.[106]
2015 August 28–30 Workshop The 3rd Introductory Workshop on Logical Decision Theory takes place.[106]
2015 September 26 Outside review The Effective Altruism Wiki page on MIRI is created.[158]
2016 Publication MIRI pays Eliezer Yudkowsky to produce AI alignment content for Arbital.[159][160] (Not sure if there are any more details of this available.)
2016 April 1–3 Workshop The Self-Reference, Type Theory, and Formal Verification takes place.[106]
2016 May 28–29 Workshop The Colloquium Series on Robust and Beneficial AI (CSRBAI) Workshop on Transparency takes place.[106]
2016 June 4–5 Workshop The Colloquium Series on Robust and Beneficial AI (CSRBAI) Workshop on Robustness and Error-Tolerance takes place.[106]
2016 June 11–12 Workshop The Colloquium Series on Robust and Beneficial AI (CSRBAI) Workshop on Preference Specification takes place.[106]
2016 June 17 Workshop The Colloquium Series on Robust and Beneficial AI (CSRBAI) Workshop on Agent Models and Multi-Agent Dilemmas takes place.[106]
2016 July 27 MIRI announces its machine learning technical agenda, called "Alignment for Advanced Machine Learning Systems".[161]
2016 August Financial The Open Philanthropy Project awards a grant worth $500,000 to Machine Intelligence Research Institute. The grant writeup notes, "Despite our strong reservations about the technical research we reviewed, we felt that awarding $500,000 was appropriate for multiple reasons".[162]
2016 August 12–14 Workshop The 8th Workshop on Logic, Probability, and Reflection takes place.[106]
2016 August 26–28 Workshop The 1st Workshop on Machine Learning and AI Safety takes place.[106]
2016 September 12 Publication MIRI announces the release of its new paper, "Logical Induction" by Scott Garrabrant, Tsvi Benson-Tilsen, Andrew Critch, Nate Soares, and Jessica Taylor.[163][164] A positive review of the paper by a machine learning researcher would be cited as a reason for Open Philanthropy Project's grant to MIRI in October 2017.
2016 October 12 MIRI does an "ask me anything" (AMA) on the Effective Altruism Forum.[165]
2016 October 21–23 Workshop The 2nd Workshop on Machine Learning and AI Safety takes place.[106]
2016 November 11–13 Workshop The 9th Workshop on Logic, Probability, and Reflection takes place.[106]
2016 December Financial The Open Philanthropy Project awards a grant worth $32,000 to AI Impacts.[166]
2016 December 1–3 Workshop The 3rd Workshop on Machine Learning and AI Safety takes place.[106]
2017 March 25–26 Workshop The Workshop on Agent Foundations and AI Safety takes place.[106]
2017 April 1–2 Workshop The 4th Workshop on Machine Learning and AI Safety takes place.[106]
2017 May 24 Publication "When Will AI Exceed Human Performance? Evidence from AI Experts" is published on the arXiv.[167] Two researchers from AI Impacts are authors on the paper. The paper would be mentioned in more than twenty news articles.[168]
2017 July 4 Strategy MIRI announces that it will be putting relatively little work into the "Alignment for Advanced Machine Learning Systems" agenda over the next year due to the departure of Patrick LaVictoire and Jessica Taylor, and leave taken by Andrew Critch.[169]
2017 July 7 Outside review Daniel Dewey, program officer for potential risks from advanced artificial intelligence at the Open Philanthropy Project, publishes a post giving his thoughts on MIRI's work on highly reliable agent design. The post is intended to provide "an unambiguous snapshot" of Dewey's beliefs, and gives the case for highly reliable agent design work (as he understands it) and why he finds other approaches (such as learning to reason from humans) more promising.[170]
2017 July 14 Outside review The timelines wiki page on MIRI is publicly circulated (see § External links).
2017 October 13 Publication "Functional Decision Theory: A New Theory of Instrumental Rationality" by Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares is posted to the arXiv.[171] The paper is announced on the Machine Intelligence Research Institute blog on October 22.[172]
2017 October Financial The Open Philanthropy Project awards MIRI a grant of $3.75 million over three years ($1.25 million per year). The cited reasons for the grant are a "very positive review" of MIRI's "Logical Induction" paper by an "outstanding" machine learning researcher, as well as the Open Philanthropy Project having made more grants in the area so that a grant to MIRI is less likely to appear as an "outsized endorsement of MIRI's approach".[173][174]
2017 November 16 Publication Eliezer Yudkowsky's sequence/book Inadequate Equilibria is fully published. The book was published chapter-by-chapter on LessWrong 2.0 and the Effective Altruism Forum starting October 28.[175][176][177] The book is reviewed on multiple blogs including Slate Star Codex (Scott Alexander),[178] Shtetl-Optimized (Scott Aaronson),[179] and Overcoming Bias (Robin Hanson).[180] The book outlines Yudkowsky's approach to epistemology, covering topics such as whether to trust expert consensus and whether one can expect to do better than average.
2017 December 1 Financial MIRI's 2017 fundraiser begins. The announcement post describes MIRI's fundraising targets, recent work at MIRI (including recent hires), and MIRI's strategic background (which gives a high-level overview of how MIRI's work relates to long-term outcomes).[181] The fundraiser would conclude with $2.5 million raised from over 300 distinct donors. The largest donation would be from Vitalik Buterin ($763,970 worth of Ethereum).[182]
2018 October 29 Project The launch of the AI Alignment Forum (often abbreviated to just "Alignment Forum") is announced on the MIRI blog. The Alignment Forum is built and maintained by the LessWrong 2.0 team (which is distinct from MIRI), but with help from MIRI. The Alignment Forum replaces MIRI's existing Intelligent Agent Foundations Forum, and is intended as "a single online hub for alignment researchers to have conversations about all ideas in the field".[183][184]
2018 October 29 – November 15 Publication The Embedded Agency sequence, by MIRI researchers Abram Demski and Scott Garrabrant, is published on the MIRI blog (text version),[185] on LessWrong 2.0 (illustrated version),[186] and on the Alignment Forum (illustrated version)[187] in serialized installments from October 29 to November 8; on November 15 a full-text version containing the entire sequence is published.[188] The term "embedded agency" is a renaming of an existing concept researched at MIRI, called "naturalized agency".[189]
2018 November 22 Strategy Nate Soares, executive director of MIRI, publishes MIRI's 2018 update post (the post was not written exclusively by Soares; see footnote 1, which begins "This post is an amalgam put together by a variety of MIRI staff"). The post describes new research directions at MIRI (which are not explained in detail due to MIRI's nondisclosure policy); explains the concept of "deconfusion" and why MIRI values it; announces MIRI's "nondisclosed-by-default" policy for most of its research; and gives a recruitment pitch for people to join MIRI.[190]
2018 November 26 Financial MIRI's 2018 fundraiser begins.[191] The fundraiser would conclude on December 31 with $951,817 raised from 348 donors.[192]
2018 December 15 Publication MIRI announces a new edition of Eliezer Yudkowsky's Rationality: From AI to Zombies (i.e. the book version of "the Sequences"). At the time of the announcement, the new edition of only two sequences, Map and Territory and How to Actually Change Your Mind, are available.[193][194]

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  • TODO Figure out how to cover publications
  • TODO mention kurzweil
  • TODO maybe include some of the largest donations (e.g. the XRP/ETH ones, tallinn, thiel)
  • TODO maybe fundraisers
  • TODO look more closely through some AMAs: [1], [2]
  • TODO maybe more info in this SSC post [3]
  • TODO more links at EA Wikia page [4]
  • TODO lots of things from strategy updates, annual reviews, etc. [5]
  • TODO Ben Goertzel talks about his involvement with MIRI [6], also more on opencog
  • TODO giant thread on Ozy's blog [7]
  • NOTE From 2017-07-06: "years that have few events so far: 2003 (one event), 2007 (one event), 2008 (three events), 2010 (three events), 2017 (three events)"
  • TODO possibly include more from the old MIRI volunteers site. Some of the volunteering opportunities like proofreading and promoting MIRI by giving it good web of trust ratings seem to give a good flavor of what MIRI was like, the specific challenges in terms of switching domains, and so on.
  • TODO cover Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative (BERI), kinda a successor to MIRI volunteers?
  • TODO cover launch of Center for Human-Compatible AI
  • TODO not sure how exactly to include this in the timeline, but something about MIRI's changing approach to funding certain types of contract work. e.g. Vipul says "I believe the work I did with Luke would no longer be sponsored by MIRI as their research agenda is now much more narrowly focused on the mathematical parts."
  • TODO who is Tyler Emerson?
  • modal combat and some other domains: [8], [9], [10]
  • https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/yGZHQYqWkLMbXy3z7/video-q-and-a-with-singularity-institute-executive-director
  • https://intelligence.org/2012/01/12/qa-2-with-luke-muehlhauser-singularity-institute-executive-director/

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See also

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References

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