Recommendations to the OSTP on the National Artificial Intelligence Research and Development Strategic Plan

Post Date March 18, 2022
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View GCRI’s submission to the OSTP on the National Artificial Intelligence Research and Development Strategic Plan.

On 1 January 2021, the National AI Initiative Act of 2020 became law as part of the National Defense Authorization Act. The National AI Initiative Act calls for regular updates to the National AI R&D Strategic Plan to include “goals, priorities, and metrics for guiding and evaluating how the agencies carrying out the National AI Initiative will support AI research. The Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) requested input from the …

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Working Paper: On the Promotion of Safe and Socially Beneficial Artificial Intelligence

Post Date July 30, 2016
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GCRI is launching a working paper series with a new paper On the promotion of safe and socially beneficial artificial intelligence by Seth Baum.

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This paper discusses means for promoting artificial intelligence (AI) that is designed to be safe and beneficial for society (or simply “beneficial AI”). The promotion of beneficial AI is a social challenge because it seeks to motivate AI developers to choose beneficial AI designs. Currently, the AI field is focused mainly on building AIs that are more capable, with little regard to …

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