Machine Intelligence Research Institute

In this month's short newsletter: recent discussions about the internal representations used by AI systems, and how to classify perspectives on AI risk.

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The MIRI Newsletter is back! Here, we recapped MIRI's new strategy pivot and some of the best MIRI posts and media appearances of the past ~year. We're also hiring, with job openings on our new Technical Governance team.

April 2024 Newsletter - Machine Intelligence Research Institute The MIRI Newsletter is back in action after a hiatus since July 2022. To recap some of the biggest MIRI developments since then: MIRI released its 2024 Mission and Strategy Update, announcing a major shift in focus: While we’re continuing to support various technical research programs at MIRI, our...

MIRI is hiring for roles on our new Technical Governance team!

We're looking for 2–4 Researchers, and 1 Writer, to help us research and design technical aspects of regulations and policies for addressing the risks associated with smarter-than-human AI.

Researcher: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/miri/c5a85cd2-eabf-4782-bf78-51036e12eeae

Writer: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/miri/44b7a3a1-fb07-47ca-8e11-92b89046ab80

The team will likely work on:

- Limitations of current proposals such as Responsible Scaling Policies.
- Inputs into regulations, requests for comments by policy bodies (ex. NIST/US AISI, EU, UN).
- Researching and designing alternative Safety Standards, or amendments to existing proposals.
- Communicating with and consulting for policymakers and governance organizations.

The roles are located in Berkeley, and we are ideally looking to hire people who can start ASAP.

Please share this with your networks or any people you think might be a good fit!

Technical Governance Researcher MIRI is hiring technical governance researchers for a new team focussed on technical aspects of regulations and policy that could lead to safe AI.