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FLI Grant: AI Objectives Institute – Talk to the City and Moral Mirror Projects

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This is a Future of Life Institute grant announcement awarding $500,000 to the AI Objectives Institute to support projects aimed at ensuring human values are preserved as AI systems become increasingly capable and integrated into existing institutions.

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The Future of Life Institute awarded $500,000 to the AI Objectives Institute (AOI), a non-profit research lab, to support its 'Talk to the City' and 'Moral Mirror' projects. AOI takes a sociotechnical systems approach, combining AI researchers, product builders, and experts from psychology, political theory, and economics. The organization focuses on improving the odds that human values thrive in a world of rapidly deployed, highly capable AI systems.

Key Points

  • •$500,000 grant from the Future of Life Institute to AI Objectives Institute, announced October 2023.
  • •Funds support 'Talk to the City' and 'Moral Mirror' projects focused on human values and AI alignment.
  • •AOI adopts a sociotechnical perspective, integrating expertise from AI labs, psychology, political theory, and economics.
  • •Mission centers on ensuring human values persist through post-singularity outcomes and rapid AI deployment.
  • •Volunteer researchers from top AI labs collaborate with product builders and domain experts.

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Grant AI Objectives Institute 

 Amount recommended $500,000.00 Grant program Project summary Support for the Talk to the City and Moral Mirror projects. AI Objectives Institute (AOI) is a non-profit research lab of leading builders and researchers. AOI brings together a network of volunteer researchers from top AI labs with product builders and experts from psychology, political theory and economics for a sociotechnical systems perspective on AI dynamics as well as post-singularity outcomes, improving odds that human values thrive in a world of rapidly deployed, extremely capable AI systems evolving with existing institutions and incentives.

 Published by the Future of Life Institute on 19 October, 2023
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