Artificial Intelligence lab OpenAI wants to develop technology ‘to save the world’. Will it also assist the US military? – Genetic Literacy Project

Microsoftsrecent victoryin landing a $10 billion Pentagon cloud-computing contract called JEDI could make life more complicated for one of the software giants partners: the independent artificial-intelligence research lab OpenAI.

OpenAI wascreated in 2015by Silicon Valley luminaries including Elon Musk to look to the far horizon, and save the world. The newborn nonprofitsaidit had commitments totaling $1 billion and would work on AI to benefit humanity as a whole, unconstrained by a need to generate financial return. But OpenAIrestructured into a for-profitthis year, saying it needed more money to fulfill its goals, andtook $1 billionfrom Microsoft in a deal that involves helping the companys cloud division develop new AI technology.

Now Microsofts JEDI win raises the possibility that OpenAIs work for the benefit of humanity may also serve the US military.

Asked if anything would prevent OpenAI technology reaching the Pentagon, the labs CEO, Sam Altman, said its contract with Microsoft requires mutual agreement before any particular technology from the lab can be commercialized by the software giant. He declined to discuss what OpenAI might agree to or what the companys stance is on helping the US military.

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Artificial Intelligence lab OpenAI wants to develop technology 'to save the world'. Will it also assist the US military? - Genetic Literacy Project