Eliezer has expressed that ultimately, the goal of MIRI is not just research how to make FAI, but to be the one's to make it.
In many ways it's a race. While the pubic is squabbling, someone is going to build the first recursively self-improving system. We're trying to maneuver the situation so that the people that do it first are the people who know what they're doing.
Eliezer has expressed that ultimately, the goal of MIRI is not just research how to make FAI, but to be the one's to make it.
Hmm..I wasn't aware of that. Is there any source for that statement? Is MIRI actually doing any general AI research? I don't think that you can easily jump from one specific field of AI research (ethics) to general AI research&design.
https://www.reddit.com/r/LessWrong/comments/2icm8m/if_we_knew_about_all_the_ways_an_intelligence/
I submitted this a while back to the lesswrong subreddit, but it occurs to me now that most LWers probably don't actually check the sub. So here it is again in case anyone that's interested didn't see it.