Everything about Machine Intelligence Research Institute
Nonprofit AI safety organization
The Machine Intelligence Research Institute (MIRI), formerly the Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence (SIAI), is a non-profit research institute focused on identifying and managing potential existential risks from artificial intelligence. MIRI's work was initially focused on a friendly AI approach to system design and on predicting the rate of technology development. By 2023-2024, MIRI had concluded that the default consequence of further AI development would be human extinction, and began to prioritize technical AI governance and public communication. In 2025, MIRI co-founder Eliezer Yudkowsky and president Nate Soares published If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies, a book arguing that the development of artificial superintelligence using current technical methods poses severe existential risk. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: Machine Intelligence Research InstituteA 5-minute orientation
- Pick up a classic book: The Conspirators HierarchyThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Research activities related to fuzzy sets and fuzzy logic at the Machine Intelligence Unit of the Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta, IndiaCited 0 times
- Go sideways: Eliezer YudkowskyA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Nate SoaresA closely related topic
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🗂️ The subject at a glance
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
📚 Books worth reading
The Conspirators HierarchyJohn Coleman · 1992
Taking sidesThomas A. Easton · 2000- 📕Intelligent Human-Machine CollaborationBoard on Global Science and Technology Staff, Policy and Global Affairs Staff · 2012
International Perspectives on English as a Lingua FrancaHugo Bowles, Alessia Cogo · 2015- 📕The use of microprocessor-based "intelligent" machines in patient careNational Institutes of Health (U.S.). Biomedical Engineering and Instrumentation Branch · 1979
Advanced Machine Learning Technologies and ApplicationsAboul Ella Hassanien · 2012- 📕Operator Function ModelingChristine M. Mitchell · 1987
How to Actually Change Your MindEliezer Yudkowsky · 2017
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- Nate Soares Nathaniel Soares is an American author and artificial intelligence (AI) researcher known for his work on existential risk from AI. In 2014, Soares co-authored…
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