— Stephen Hawking, Stuart Russell, Max Tegmark, Frank Wilczek writing on the lack of effort people put into averting an Unfriendly AI scenario

Yxoque’s commentary: This isn’t new to me and it probably won’t be for a good number of my followers, but I think it’s good that people are using a (supposedly) popular movie to talk about real issues. Not talking about the potential of humanity working together was a huge missed opportunity when Pacific Rim came out.

(via yxoque)

Holy shit did TEGMARK and HAWKING just endorse MIRI?

(via ozymandias271)

Well, MIRI’s concerns and perhaps goals, at most.

The organization behinde the HuffPo article is the brand-new Future of Life Institute, co-founded by Jaan Tallinn, Max Tegmark, Vika Krakovna, and Meia Chita-Tegmark, along with Anthony Aguirre. Their website is here, although fair warning: their website  was rushed out for the publication of that article and is shocking, they’re working on something to replace the placeholder:
“The current thefutureoflife.org site is just a placeholder while we get things ready, and it will soon look more like its sister site, http://www.fqxi.org and http://www.fqxi.org/community. If you’d be willing to send some critical feedback when we’re further along, say a month from now, that will be much appreciated!”

As you’ll see at that website, Tegmark is a founder of FLI, and Hawking, Wilczek and Russell (author of the leading AI textbook) are on the Scientific Advisory Board, along with Alan Guth, Martin Rees, Saul Perlmutter, Christoff Koch, George Church, Nick Bostrom and Alan Alda.

They're  working on x-risk advocacy and  publicity as well as research (apparently currently mostly focusing on AI risk). Lots of overlap with CSER, mainly doing publicity near-term.

I know most of this via discussion on the CFAR mailing list (four of the founders are CFAR workshop alumni)