Ebay’s Founder Is Giving Away $10 Million to Support AI That Is Good and Not Evil

▻http://gizmodo.com/ebays-founder-is-giving-away-10-million-to-support-ai-1791055147

According to MIT, the initiative plans to use an interdisciplinary network to explore how AI can maximize the public good in fields ranging from labor and education to criminal justice and transportation.

While the fund is primarily concerned with the more immediate effects of artificial intelligence on society, it’s probably not a bad idea to start thinking about such systems under an ethical framework now.

“there is no part of our lives that is not being affected by some kind of articial intelligence agent”