“MIRI’s 2025 Fundraiser” by RobBensinger

MIRI is running its first fundraiser in six years, targeting $6M. The first $1.6M raised will be matched 1:1 via an SFF grant. Fundraiser ends at midnight on Dec 31, 2025. Support our efforts to improve the conversation about superintelligence and help the world chart a viable path forward. MIRI is a nonprofit with a goal of helping humanity make smart and sober decisions on the topic of smarter-than-human AI. Our main focus from 2000 to ~2022 was on technical research to try to make it possible to build such AIs without catastrophic outcomes. More recently, we’ve pivoted to raising an alarm about how the race to superintelligent AI has put humanity on course for disaster. In 2025, those efforts focused around Nate Soares and Eliezer Yudkowsky's book (now a New York Times bestseller) If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies, with many public appearances by the authors; many conversations with policymakers; the release of an expansive online supplement to the book; and various technical governance publications, including a recent report with a draft of an international agreement of the kind that could actually address the danger of superintelligence. Millions have now viewed interviews and appearances with Eliezer and/or Nate [...] ---Outline:(02:18) The Big Picture(03:39) Activities(03:42) Communications(07:54) Governance(12:31) Fundraising --- First published: December 2nd, 2025 Source: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/wPhHBqb2qPmh4bWCS/miri-s-2025-fundraiser --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

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