Machine Intelligence Research Institute (MIRI)

A Berkeley research nonprofit whose work helped found the field of AI alignment, and which now calls for a global, enforced halt on building superintelligence.

MIRI has worked on the risks of artificial superintelligence for over two decades, and its early research, such as the 2014 paper that named corrigibility, helped found the field of AI alignment. intelligence.org

It now argues that “the default consequence of the creation of artificial superintelligence (ASI) is human extinction”, and that survival depends on “some form of globally coordinated and collectively enforced moratorium on the development of ASI”.