January 4 at 3:07 PM

Machine learning

Scholars to study artificial intelligence

Stanford University is anchoring a study to examine the long-term effects of artificial intelligence.

Led and funded by Eric Horvitz, managing director of Microsoft research and a Stanford University alumnus, the 100-year study will be overseen by a committee with rotating members who will track progress at five-year intervals.

They plan to pay close attention to focus on how artificial intelligence affects national security, psychology, ethics, law, privacy and democracy, among other topics.

So far, professors from Stanford, Harvard University, Carnegie Mellon University, the University of California at Berkeley and the University of British Columbia are joining.

[W]e feel obliged and qualified to host a conversation about how artificial intelligence will affect our children and our childrens children, Stanford President John Hennessy said in a statement.

Mohana Ravindranath

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