{"id":50707,"date":"2023-05-26T07:17:21","date_gmt":"2023-05-26T11:17:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/?p=50707"},"modified":"2023-05-26T07:17:23","modified_gmt":"2023-05-26T11:17:23","slug":"openai-announces-1m-ai-democratic-project-grant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/openai-announces-1m-ai-democratic-project-grant\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenAI Announces $1M AI Democratic Project Grant"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

OpenAI, ChatGPT's parent company, has launched a program to increase democratic participation in AI development. It would award 10 grants of $100,000 each to teams worldwide to develop a democratic process<\/a> for determining AI rules.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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OpenAI Announces $1M AI Democratic Project Grant<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The company announced on May 25 that it intends to award ten grants of $100,000 each to fund experiments to establish a “proof-of-concept” democratic procedure for determining the rules that AI systems<\/a> must follow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to OpenAI, the regulations should be “within the bounds defined by the law” and should benefit humanity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cThis grant represents a step to establish democratic processes for overseeing AGI and, ultimately, superintelligence.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

The company stated that the experiments would be the foundation for a future “global” and “ambitious” endeavour. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was also noted that the results of the experiments would not be legally binding but would be used to investigate vital questions regarding AI governance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

OpenAI's charitable branch provides the grant. It was stated that the project's outcomes would be freely available to the public.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This comes at a time when governments around the globe are attempting to implement regulations on general-purpose generative AI. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sam Altman\r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n <\/g>\r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n <\/clipPath>\r\n <\/defs><\/svg><\/span><\/a>, CEO of OpenAI, recently met with European regulators to emphasize the significance of nonrestrictive rules that do not impede innovation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A week earlier, Altman testified to Congress with a similar message.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In announcing a new grant program, OpenAI affirms that laws should be tailored to the technology and that artificial intelligence<\/a> requires “more intricate and adaptive guidelines for its conduct.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It provided example questions such as “How should disputed views be represented in AI outputs?” Following this, it was stated that no single individual, organization, or nation should dictate such decisions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

OpenAI has previously warned that a superhuman AI could emerge within a decade if AI is not developed with caution. Therefore, developers “have to get it right.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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