MIRI 2024 Mission and Strategy Update

As we announced back in October, I have taken on the senior leadership role at MIRI as its CEO. It's a big pair of shoes to fill, and an awesome responsibility that I’m honored to take on.There have been several changes at MIRI since our 2020 strategic update, so let's get into it.[1]The short version:We think it's very unlikely that the AI alignment field will be able to make progress quickly enough to prevent human extinction and the loss of the future's potential value, that we expect will result from loss of control to smarter-than-human AI systems.However, developments this past year like the release of ChatGPT seem to have shifted the Overton window in a lot of groups. There's been a lot more discussion of extinction risk from AI, including among policymakers, and the discussion quality seems greatly improved.This provides a glimmer of hope. [...]The original text contained 7 footnotes which were omitted from this narration. --- First published: January 5th, 2024 Source: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/q3bJYTB3dGRf5fbD9/miri-2024-mission-and-strategy-update --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.