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Useful background reference for understanding MIRI's institutional history and its foundational role in the AI safety field; not a primary research source but good for organizational context.
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Wikipedia article providing an overview of the Machine Intelligence Research Institute (MIRI), a nonprofit research organization focused on ensuring that artificial general intelligence (AGI) is developed safely and beneficially. It covers MIRI's history, research agenda, key figures, and its role in pioneering the AI safety field.
Key Points
- •MIRI (formerly SIAI) was founded in 2000 and is one of the oldest organizations dedicated to AGI safety research.
- •The institute focuses on technical AI alignment research, including decision theory, logical uncertainty, and agent foundations.
- •MIRI has been influential in popularizing existential risk concerns around advanced AI through publications and outreach.
- •Key figures associated with MIRI include Eliezer Yudkowsky, whose work on AI alignment and rationality shaped the organization's direction.
- •MIRI shifted focus over time from AGI timelines and strategy toward more technical, formal approaches to alignment problems.
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Nonprofit AI safety organization
"Singularity Institute" redirects here; not to be confused with [Singularity University](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singularity_University "Singularity University").
| [](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:MIRI_logo.svg) |
| Formation | 2000; 26 years ago (2000) |
| Type | [Nonprofit](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonprofit "Nonprofit") [research institute](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Research_institute "Research institute") |
| [Tax ID no.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxpayer_Identification_Number "Taxpayer Identification Number") | 58-2565917 |
| Purpose | Research into [friendly artificial intelligence](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friendly_artificial_intelligence "Friendly artificial intelligence") and the [AI control problem](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_control_problem "AI control problem") |
| Location | - [Berkeley, California](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley,_California "Berkeley, California"), [U.S.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S. "U.S.") |
| Key people | [Eliezer Yudkowsky](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eliezer_Yudkowsky "Eliezer Yudkowsky") |
| Website | [intelligence.org](http://intelligence.org/)[](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2040269#P856 "Edit this at Wikidata") |
Machine Intelligence Research Institute
The **Machine Intelligence Research Institute** ( **MIRI**), formerly the **Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence** ( **SIAI**), is a [non-profit](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-profit_organization "Non-profit organization") [research institute](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Research_institute "Research institute") focused since 2005 on identifying and managing potential [existential risks from artificial intelligence](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Existential_risk_from_artificial_intelligence "Existential risk from artificial intelligence"). MIRI's work has focused on a [friendly AI](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friendly_artificial_intelligence "Friendly artificial intelligence") approach to system design and on predicting the rate of technology development.
## History
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