The MIRI Newsletter is back in action after a hiatus since July 2022. To recap some of the biggest MIRI developments since then:

• MIRI released its 2024 Mission and Strategy Update, announcing a major shift in focus: While we’re continuing to support various technical research programs at MIRI, our new top priority is broad public communication and policy change.
  • In short, we’ve become increasingly pessimistic that humanity will be able to solve the alignment problem in time, while we’ve become more hopeful (relatively speaking) about the prospect of intergovernmental agreements to hit the brakes on frontier AI development for a very long time—long enough for the world to find some realistic path forward.
• Coinciding with this strategy change, Malo Bourgon transitioned from MIRI COO to CEO, and Nate Soares transitioned from CEO to President. We also made two new senior staff hires [...]

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