The Machine Intelligence Research Institute, formerly known as the Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence (not to be confused with Singularity University) is a non-profit research organization devoted to reducing existential risk from unfriendly artificial intelligence and understanding problems related to friendly artificial intelligence. Eliezer Yudkowsky was one of the early founders and continues to work there as a Research Fellow. The Machine Intelligence Research Institute created and currently owns the LessWrong domain.

External Links

• Homepage of the Machine Intelligence Research Institute

See Also

• Technological singularity

• Existential risk

• Intelligence explosion

• Friendly artificial intelligence