[xamdam]

a) Not sure if MIRI is a spiritual parent of OpenAI. It's a different approach to the problem, and I'm not sure MIRI would spawn OpenAI if they had the resources.

b) Also, unfair to MIRI. They are not only researching the area but also creating it. A lot of early work want into socializing AI risk as an idea, and in that sense pretty much every future effort in this area owes to them. I've given noticeable dollars to MIRI and pretty satisfied with ROI (of course always room for improvement), would do it again.