Machine Intelligence Research Institute — General support (2020)
Open Philanthropy, April 10, 2020
Abstract
Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of $7,703,750 to the Machine Intelligence Research Institute (MIRI) for general support. MIRI plans to use these funds for ongoing research and activities related to reducing potential risks from advanced artificial intelligence, one of our focus areas.
This follows our February 2019 support. While we see the basic pros and cons of this support similarly to what we’ve presented in past writeups on the matter, our ultimate grant figure was set by the aggregated judgments of our committee for effective altruism support, described in more detail here.
