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title: "Machine Intelligence Research Institute: AI company profile, people and coverage"
description: "The Machine Intelligence Research Institute (MIRI), formerly the Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence (SIAI), is a non-profit research institute focused on identifying and managing potential existential risks from artificial intelligence. MIRI's work has focused on a friendly AI approach to system design and on predicting the rate of technology development."
canonical: https://monitor.paciva.ai/company-machine-intelligence-research-institute
type: Organization
wikidata: Q2040269
wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_Intelligence_Research_Institute
website: http://intelligence.org/
source: AI News Monitor
publisher: Paciva
license: CC BY 4.0 for this page's own layer; facts from Wikidata (CC0 1.0)
---

# Machine Intelligence Research Institute

> The Machine Intelligence Research Institute (MIRI), formerly the Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence (SIAI), is a non-profit research institute focused on identifying and managing potential existential risks from artificial intelligence. MIRI's work has focused on a friendly AI approach to system design and on predicting the rate of technology development.

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## Facts

- Category: Research lab
- Country: United States
- Founded: 2000-01-01
- Headquarters: Berkeley
- Status: private
- Website: http://intelligence.org/
- Also known as: MIRI, SIAI, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence

## Accounts

- x: https://x.com/MIRIBerkeley
- facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MachineIntelligenceResearchInstitute

## Key people

- Eliezer Yudkowsky, founder (American AI researcher and writer (born 1979))
- Aubrey de Grey (British writer and biomedical gerontologist)

## Revenue

- 2010-01-01: USD 914.9 thousand (Wikidata)
- 2011-01-01: USD 946.4 thousand (Wikidata)
- 2012-01-01: USD 1.6 million (Wikidata)
- 2013-01-01: USD 1.7 million (Wikidata)
- 2014-01-01: USD 1.1 million (Wikidata)
- 2015-01-01: USD 1.7 million (Wikidata)
- 2016-01-01: USD 2.4 million (Wikidata)
- 2017-01-01: USD 5.9 million (Wikidata)
- 2018-01-01: USD 5.7 million (Wikidata)
- 2019-01-01: USD 4.8 million (Wikidata)
- 2020-01-01: USD 7.8 million (Wikidata)
- 2021-01-01: USD 25.6 million (Wikidata)
- 2022-01-01: USD 1.9 million (Wikidata)

## Coverage on the Monitor

Every article, podcast, video and market the Monitor holds on Machine Intelligence Research Institute, dated and linked to its publisher: https://monitor.paciva.ai/company-machine-intelligence-research-institute#connections

## Sources

- Facts: Wikidata (CC0 1.0), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2040269, read 2026-11-11
- Summary: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_Intelligence_Research_Institute

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