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 Nonprofit AI safety organization 
 "Singularity Institute" redirects here; not to be confused with Singularity University . 
 Machine Intelligence Research Institute Formation 2000 &#59; 26 years ago  ( 2000 ) Type Nonprofit research institute Tax ID no. 58-2565917 Purpose Research into friendly artificial intelligence and the AI control problem Location Berkeley, California , U.S. 
 Key people Eliezer Yudkowsky Website intelligence .org 
 The Machine Intelligence Research Institute ( MIRI ), formerly the Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence ( SIAI ), is a non-profit research institute focused since 2005 on identifying and managing potential existential risks from artificial intelligence . MIRI's work has focused on a friendly AI approach to system design and on predicting the rate of technology development.

 
 History

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 Yudkowsky at Stanford University in 2006 
 In 2000, Eliezer Yudkowsky founded the Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence with funding from Brian and Sabine Atkins, with the purpose of accelerating the development of artificial intelligence (AI). [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] However, Yudkowsky began to be concerned that AI systems developed in the future could become superintelligent and pose risks to humanity, [ 1 ] and in 2005 the institute moved from Atlanta to Silicon Valley and began to focus on ways to identify and manage those risks, which were at the time largely ignored by scientists in the field. [ 2 ] [ 4 ] 

 Starting in 2006, the Institute organized the Singularity Summit to discuss the future of AI including its risks, initially in cooperation with Stanford University and with funding from Peter Thiel . The San Francisco Chronicle described the first conference as a "Bay Area coming-out party for the tech-inspired philosophy called transhumanism ". [ 5 ] [ 6 ] In 2011, its offices were four apartments in downtown Berkeley. [ 7 ] In December 2012, the institute sold its name, web domain, and the Singularity Summit to Singularity University , [ 8 ] and in the following month took the name "Machine Intelligence Research Institute". [ 9 ] 

 In 2014 and 2015, public and scientific interest in the risks of AI grew, increasing donations to fund research at MIRI and similar organizations. [ 3 ] [ 10 ] : 327  

 In 2019, Open Philanthropy recommended a general-support grant of approximately $2.1 million over two years to MIRI. [ 11 ] In April 2020, Open Philanthropy supplemented this with a $7.7M grant over two years. [ 12 ] [ 13 ] 

 In 2021, Vitalik Buterin donated several million dollar

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