Program areas at Machine Intelligence Research Institute
Research program activities - we spent this year continuing our existing Research agenda and expanding work on new Research directions. Research staff were particularly active in posting technical writeups on our ai alignment forum. Our progress on all our Research directions and the supporting infrastructure was steady and significant, in line with our expectations. Significant Research publications include "delegative reinforcement learning: learning to avoid traps with a little help and "risks from learned optimization in advanced Machine learning systems"
Outreach - our outreach activities this year were focused on running workshops that exposed and oriented technically minded people to ai risk and various potential paths for Research. Workshops we hosted included: ai risk for computer scientists, a four-day workshop series designed to introduce technically minded people to thinking tools for reasoning about ai risk; miri summer fellows, a two-week retreat to bring people up to speed on problems related to ai alignment, train research-relevant skills, and investigate open problems in the field. Outreach publications include "alignment Research field guide and "ai safety reading list". We attended the global governance of ai roundtable event.
Who funds Machine Intelligence Research Institute
Grants from foundations and other nonprofits
Personnel at Machine Intelligence Research Institute
Name | Title | Compensation | Date of data |
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Malo Bourgon | Chief Operating Officer | $98,138 | 2021-04-01 |
Nate Soares | Research Fellow, Quickly Earning | $128,290 | 2020-09-30 |
Edwin Evans | Chair | $0 | 2020-09-30 |
Eliezer Yudkowsky | Director and Secretary | $147,697 | 2019-12-31 |
Nathaniel Soares | Past Executive Director | | 2016-01-11 |
Financials for Machine Intelligence Research Institute
Revenues | FYE 12/2019 | FYE 12/2018 | % Change |
---|
Total grants, contributions, etc. | $4,548,281 | $5,518,515 | -17.6% |
Program services | $13,459 | $30,455 | -55.8% |
Investment income and dividends | $177,839 | $146,052 | 21.8% |
Tax-exempt bond proceeds | $0 | $0 | - |
Royalty revenue | $0 | $0 | - |
Net rental income | $0 | $0 | - |
Net gain from sale of non-inventory assets | $0 | $13,367 | -100% |
Net income from fundraising events | $0 | $0 | - |
Net income from gaming activities | $0 | $0 | - |
Net income from sales of inventory | $0 | $0 | - |
Miscellaneous revenues | $17,186 | $10 | - |
Total revenues | $4,756,765 | $5,708,399 | -16.7% |
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Data update history
August 23, 2021
Posted financials
Added Form 990 for fiscal year 2019
May 25, 2021
Used new vendors
Identified 5 new vendors, including , , , , and
April 29, 2021
Posted financials
Added Form 990 for fiscal year 2018
Nonprofit Types
Social advocacy organizationsResearch centersMedia and communications organizationsCharities
Issues
Social sciences
Characteristics
Conducts researchNational levelTax deductible donations
General information
- Address
- 2036 Bancroft Way
- Berkeley, CA 94704
- Metro area
- San Francisco-Oakland-Berkeley, CA
- County
- Alameda County, CA
- Website URL
- intelligence.org/Â
- Phone
- (510) 859-4381
- Facebook page
- MachineIntelligenceResearchInstituteÂ
- Twitter profile
- @miriberkeleyÂ
IRS details
- EIN
- 58-2565917
- Fiscal year end
- December
- Taxreturn type
- Form 990
- Year formed
- 2000
- Eligible to receive tax-deductible contributions (Pub 78)
- Yes
Categorization
- NTEE code, primary
- V20: Social Science Research Institutes, Services
- NAICS code, primary
- 813319: Social Advocacy Organizations
- Parent/child status
- Independent
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