ChatGPT creator OpenAI announced that it has launched a program that will award 10 $100,000 grants to fund experiments to establish a democratic process for deciding which rules AI systems must follow “within the limits defined by law.”Pluralistic participation for AI rules
OpenAI says it aims to provide funds to individuals, teams and organizations to develop proofs of concept for a “democratic process” that can concretely answer questions about security measures for AI. The company wants to learn from these experiments and use them as the basis for a more global – and more ambitious – process in the future.
“While these initial experiments are not intended to be binding on decisions (at least for now), we hope they explore questions about decisions and create new democratic tools that can more directly inform decisions in the future. This grant is aimed at establishing democratic processes for superintelligence,” the company wrote in a blog post published today. represents a step.” used his statements.
Interesting step after “ultimatum”
“The primary purpose of this grant is to foster innovation in processes where we need advanced democratic methods to manage AI behavior,” states OpenAI. The company underlines that they believe that decisions about how AI will behave should be shaped by different perspectives that reflect the public interest.In its announcement, OpenAI implies that the grant program is completely separate from its commercial interests. But there is a contrast given CEO Sam Altman’s recent criticisms of the proposed AI regulation in the EU. Altman had just given an “ultimatum” to the EU regarding the regulations.
In the meantime, applications for OpenAI’s “Democratic AI” grant program are available from today until 07:00 on 24 June. Once the application period is over, OpenAI will select ten successful participants. Recipients will need to showcase a concept involving at least 500 contributors, publish a public report on their findings by October 20, and open source the code behind their work.
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