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 The **Machine Intelligence Research Institute (MIRI)**, formerly the **Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence (SIAI)**, is an American non-profit organization based in [[united_states:california:Berkeley]], [[united_states:California]].
-MIRI aligns itself with the principles and objectives of the [[effective altruism]] movement.((Bensinger, R. (2015, August 28). //AI and Effective Altruism. Machine Intelligence Research Institute.// https://web.archive.org/web/20230121192312/https://intelligence.org/2015/08/28/ai-and-effective-altruism/))
+MIRI aligns itself with the principles and objectives of the [[effective altruism]] movement, having been influenced and advised by [[Open Philanthropy]] and [[GiveWell]].((Bensinger, R. (2015, August 28). //AI and Effective Altruism. Machine Intelligence Research Institute.// https://web.archive.org/web/20230121192312/https://intelligence.org/2015/08/28/ai-and-effective-altruism/))
 ===== History =====
+The organization was founded as the Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence (SIAI) in 2000 by [[Eliezer Yudkowsky]].((//What is The Singularity? Version SIAI.// (2011, May 17). A c c E L E R a T I O N. https://web.archive.org/web/20211205113321/http://accelerationthemovie.com/?p=125)) It was primarily funded by [[Peter Thiel]].
 In 2019, [[Open Philanthropy]] recommended a general-support grant of approximately $2.1 million over two years to MIRI.((//Machine Intelligence Research Institute — General Support (2019).// (2019, April 1). Open Philanthropy. https://web.archive.org/web/20230123081923/https://www.openphilanthropy.org/grants/machine-intelligence-research-institute-general-support-2019/)) In April 2020, Open Philanthropy supplemented this with a $7.7M grant over two years.((//Machine Intelligence Research Institute — General Support (2020).// (2020, April 10). Open Philanthropy. https://web.archive.org/web/20220925021245/https://www.openphilanthropy.org/grants/machine-intelligence-research-institute-general-support-2020/)) ((Bensinger, R. (2020, April 27). //MIRI’s largest grant to date!// Machine Intelligence Research Institute. https://archive.ph/8Cdqx))
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 Donors to the MIRI include:((Bensinger, R. (2020, April 27). //MIRI’s largest grant to date!// Machine Intelligence Research Institute. https://archive.ph/8Cdqx))
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   * [[Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative]] (BERI)
   * [[Long-Term Future Fund]] at [[Effective Altruism Funds]]
+  * [[Longview Philanthropy]]
   * [[Open Philanthropy]]
+  * [[Peter Thiel]]
   * [[Vitalik Buterin]]
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+==== Personnel ====
+^ Name  ^ Position  ^ Notes  ^
+| [[Nick Bostrom]]  | Advisor((//Advisors.// Singularity Institute. Retrieved February 11, 2010, from https://web.archive.org/web/20100211210711/http://singinst.org/aboutus/advisors))  | [[Future of Humanity Institute]], [[Yale University]], [[European Commission]], [[Central Intelligence Agency]] (CIA)  |
+| [[Peter Cheeseman]]  | Advisor  | [[University of Technology Sydney]], [[SRI International]], [[NASA Ames Research Center]]  |
+| [[Aubrey de Grey]]  | Advisor  | [[Methuselah Foundation]]  |
+| [[Neil Jacobstein]]  | Advisor  | [[Teknowledge Corporation]], [[National Science Foundation]], [[Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency]] (DARPA), [[National Aeronautics and Space Administration]] (NASA), [[National Institutes of Health]] (NIH), [[Environmental Protection Agency]] (EPA), [[United States Army]], [[United States Air Force]], [[General Motors]], [[Ford]], [[Boeing]], [[Applied Materials]], [[American Association for Artificial Intelligence]], [[Institute for Molecular Manufacturing]]  |
+| [[Luke Muehlhauser]]  | Executive Director (former)  | Left to join [[Open Philanthropy]]((Bensinger, R. (2015, August 28). //AI and Effective Altruism. Machine Intelligence Research Institute.// https://web.archive.org/web/20230121192312/https://intelligence.org/2015/08/28/ai-and-effective-altruism/))  |
+| [[Stephen Omohundro]]  | Advisor  | [[Phi Beta Kappa]], [[Thinking Machines Corporation]], [[University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign]], [[Center for Complex Systems Research]], [[Wolfram Research]], [[International Computer Science Institute]], [[NEC_laboratories_america|NEC Research Institute]], [[Olo Software]], [[InterTrust Technologies]], [[Palo Alto Research Center|Xerox PARC]], [[Fuji Xerox]], [[ask.com|Ask Jeeves]], [[VideoScribe]], [[LinuxMatrix]], [[Video Memoirs]], [[Molecular Objects]], [[Self-Aware Systems]]  |
+| [[Barney Pell]]  | Advisor  | [[Powerset]], [[Decision Theory]], [[Mayfield]], [[NASA Ames Research Center]]  |
+| [[Christine Peterson]]  | Advisor  | [[Foresight Nanotech Institute]], [[Freedom Technology Ventures]], [[Alameda Capital]], [[International Council on Nanotechnology]], [[Blue Ribbon Task Force on Nanotechnology]], [[Nanotech Briefs]]  |
+| [[Max Tegmark]]  | Advisor  | [[Max Planck Institute for Physics]], [[Institute for Advanced Study]], [[University of Pennsylvania]], [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]] (MIT), [[National Science Foundation]]  |
+| [[Peter Thiel]]  | Advisor  | [[Clarium Capital]], [[Founders Fund]], [[Facebook]], [[PayPal]], [[Thiel Capital Management]], [[Credit Suisse]], [[Sullivan & Cromwell]], [[Pacific Research Institute]], [[Stanford Law School]]  |
 ===== External links =====
   * [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_Intelligence_Research_Institute|Wikipedia]]