Timeline of Machine Intelligence Research Institute

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This is a timeline of Machine Intelligence Research Institute.

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1996 November 18 Eliezer Yudkowsky writes the first version of "Staring into the Singularity".[1]
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.[2][3]
2000 July Machine Intelligence Research Institute is founded as the Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence.[4]:3
2006 May 13 The first Singularity Summit takes place at Stanford University.[5][6][7]
2007 September 8–9 The Singularity Summit 2007 takes place in the San Francisco Bay Area.[5][8]
2008 October 25 The Singularity Summit 2008 takes place in San Jose.[9]
2009 October 3–4 The Singularity Summit 2009 takes place in New York.[10][11]
2009 or 2010 MIRI reports $118,803.00 in theft during this year.[12][13] The theft was by two former employees.[14]
2010 August 14–15 The Singularity Summit 2010 takes place in San Francisco.[15]
2011 April Luke Muehlhauser begins as an intern at MIRI.[16]
2011 October 15–16 The Singularity Summit 2011 takes place in New York.[17]
2012 May 8 MIRI's April 2012 progress report is published, in which CFAR's name is announced. Until this point, CFAR was known as the "Rationality Group" or "Rationality Org".[18]
2012 May 11 Holden Karnofsky publishes "Thoughts on the Singularity Institute (SI)" on LessWrong. The post explains why GiveWell does not plan to recommend the Singularity Institute.[19]
2012 August 15 Luke Muehlhauser does an "ask me anything" (AMA) on reddit's r/Futurology.[20]
2012 December 6 Singularity University announces that it has acquired the Singularity Summit from MIRI.[21]
2013 January 30 MIRI announces that it has renamed itself from "Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence" to "Machine Intelligence Research Institute".[22]
2014 July 4 Earliest evidence of AI Impacts existing is from this day.[23]
2015 January AI Impacts rolls out a new website.[24]
2015 May 6 Executive director Luke Muehlhauser announces his departure from MIRI. The announcement also states that Nate Soares will be the new executive director.[25]
2016 August The Open Philanthropy Project awards a grant worth $500,000 to Machine Intelligence Research Institute.[26]
2016 December The Open Philanthropy Project awards a grant worth $32,000 to AI Impacts.[27]

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  1. ↑ "Yudkowsky - Staring into the Singularity 1.2.5". Retrieved June 1, 2017. 
  2. ↑ "SL4: By Date". Retrieved June 1, 2017. 
  3. ↑ Eliezer S. Yudkowsky. "SL4 Mailing List". Retrieved June 1, 2017. 
  4. ↑ "Form 990-EZ 2000" (PDF). Retrieved June 1, 2017. Organization was incorporated in July 2000 and does not have a financial history for years 1996-1999. 
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 "Singularity Summit". Machine Intelligence Research Institute. Retrieved June 30, 2017. 
  6. ↑ Dan Farber. "The great Singularity debate". ZDNet. Retrieved June 30, 2017. 
  7. ↑ Jerry Pournelle (May 20, 2006). "Chaos Manor Special Reports: The Stanford Singularity Summit". Retrieved June 30, 2017. 
  8. ↑ "The Singularity Summit 2007". Retrieved June 30, 2017. 
  9. ↑ http://helldesign.net. "The Singularity Summit 2008: Opportunity, Risk, Leadership > Program". Retrieved June 30, 2017. 
  10. ↑ http://helldesign.net. "The Singularity Summit 2009 > Program". Retrieved June 30, 2017. 
  11. ↑ Stuart Fox (October 2, 2009). "Singularity Summit 2009: The Singularity Is Near". Popular Science. Retrieved June 30, 2017. 
  12. ↑ Brandon Reinhart. "SIAI - An Examination - Less Wrong". LessWrong. Retrieved June 30, 2017. 
  13. ↑ "lukeprog comments on Thoughts on the Singularity Institute (SI) - Less Wrong". LessWrong. Retrieved June 30, 2017. So little monitoring of funds that $118k was stolen in 2010 before SI noticed. (Note that we have won stipulated judgments to get much of this back, and have upcoming court dates to argue for stipulated judgments to get the rest back.) 
  14. ↑ "Reply to Holden on The Singularity Institute". LessWrong. July 10, 2012. Retrieved June 30, 2017. Two former employees stole $118,000 from SI. Earlier this year we finally won stipulated judgments against both individuals, forcing them to pay back the full amounts they stole. We have already recovered several thousand dollars of this. 
  15. ↑ "Singularity Summit | Program". Retrieved June 30, 2017. 
  16. ↑ "lukeprog comments on Thoughts on the Singularity Institute (SI)". LessWrong. Retrieved June 30, 2017. When I began to intern with the Singularity Institute in April 2011, I felt uncomfortable suggesting that people donate to SingInst, because I could see it from the inside and it wasn't pretty. 
  17. ↑ "Singularity Summit | Program". Retrieved June 30, 2017. 
  18. ↑ Louie Helm (May 8, 2012). "Machine Intelligence Research Institute Progress Report, April 2012". Machine Intelligence Research Institute. Retrieved June 30, 2017. 
  19. ↑ Holden Karnofsky. "Thoughts on the Singularity Institute (SI) - Less Wrong". LessWrong. Retrieved June 30, 2017. 
  20. ↑ "I am Luke Muehlhauser, CEO of the Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence. Ask me anything about the Singularity, AI progress, technological forecasting, and researching Friendly AI! • r/Futurology". reddit. Retrieved June 30, 2017. 
  21. ↑ "Singularity University Acquires the Singularity Summit". Singularity University. December 9, 2012. Retrieved June 30, 2017. 
  22. ↑ "We are now the "Machine Intelligence Research Institute" (MIRI)". Machine Intelligence Research Institute. January 30, 2013. Retrieved June 30, 2017. 
  23. ↑ "Recent site activity - AI Impacts". Retrieved June 30, 2017. Jul 4, 2014, 10:39 AM Katja Grace edited Predictions of human-level AI timelines 
  24. ↑ Luke Muehlhauser (January 11, 2015). "An improved "AI Impacts" website". Machine Intelligence Research Institute. Retrieved June 30, 2017. 
  25. ↑ Luke Muehlhauser (May 6, 2015). "A fond farewell and a new Executive Director". Machine Intelligence Research Institute. Retrieved June 30, 2017. 
  26. ↑ "Machine Intelligence Research Institute — General Support". Open Philanthropy Project. Retrieved June 30, 2017. 
  27. ↑ "AI Impacts — General Support". Open Philanthropy Project. Retrieved June 30, 2017. 
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