Machine Intelligence Research Institute
| Formation | 2000 | 
|---|---|
| Type | Nonprofit research institute | 
| 58-2565917 | |
| Purpose | Research into friendly artificial intelligence and the AI control problem | 
| Location | |
| Key people | Eliezer Yudkowsky | 
| Website | intelligence | 
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 general intelligence. MIRI's work has focused on a friendly AI approach to system design and on predicting the rate of technology development.