Information for Edward Kmett

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List of positions (2 positions)

Organization Title Start date End date AI safety relation Subject Employment type Source Notes
Machine Intelligence Research Institute 2018-12-15 2021-12-24 position technical research full-time [1], [2], [3] Listed under Research Staff without an explicit title; absent from November and first observed in December 2018. December 2019 explicitly lists this person among full-time research staff; this confirms status at that observation, not the date full-time work began. Closed on subsequent absence under the requested reconstruction rule; end date records last observed presence, not a confirmed departure date.
Machine Intelligence Research Institute 2018-12-15 position technical research full-time [1], [2] Listed under Research Staff without an explicit title; absent from November and first observed in December 2018. December 2019 explicitly lists this person among full-time research staff; this confirms status at that observation, not the date full-time work began.

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Organization documents (1 document)

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MIRI’s newest recruit: Edward Kmett! 2018-12-01 yiavin Reddit Machine Intelligence Research Institute, Ought Edward Kmett, Nate Soares AI safety A post on r/haskell about Edward Kmett joining MIRI, with comments from Kmett. In comments, Kmett says that “Nate Soares came out to Boston personally, and made a very compelling argument for me going off and doing the work I’d been trying to complete solely in my evening hours full time”. Kmett also says he has “helped ought.org find at least one developer”.

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