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Nate Soares becomes executive director of the Machine Intelligence Research Institute

The Machine Intelligence Research Institute appointed Nate Soares as executive director with unanimous board support after a year as a research fellow. The completed leadership transition placed an active alignment researcher in charge of the institute's technical research, hiring, and organizational development.

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CURRENT ASSESSMENT · REVISION 1
AWAY FROM DOOM22confidence 96/100

Why it moved the index

The completed appointment strengthened leadership capacity at an organization devoted to technical alignment research, a direct but institutionally limited increase in advanced-AI safety capacity.

Assessment history

  1. R1
    Away 22 · confidence 96

    Adds a dated, completed safety-leadership transition from Nate Soares's historical backfill that is not in the durable corpus.

    04 Sept 2026

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