From now through the end of December, MIRI's 2019 Fundraiser is live! See our fundraiser post for updates on our past year and future plans.

One of our biggest updates, I'm happy to announce, is that we've hired five new research staff, with a sixth to join us in February. For details, see Workshops and Scaling Up in the fundraiser post.

Also: Facebook's Giving Tuesday matching opportunity is tomorrow at 5:00am PT! See Colm's post for details on how to get your donation matched.

Other updates

Thoughts from the research team

This month, I'm trying something new: quoting MIRI researchers' summaries and thoughts on recent AI safety write-ups.

I've left out names so that these can be read as a snapshot of people's impressions, rather than a definitive “Ah, researcher X believes Y!” Just keep in mind that these will be a small slice of thoughts from staff I've recently spoken to, not anything remotely like a consensus take.