The partnership aims to set societal and ethical best practice for artificial intelligence research.
The nonprofit organization, which consist of Google (and Google´s DeepMind), Facebook, Amazon, IBM and Microsoft, is established in order to advance public understanding of artificial intelligence technologies (AI) and formulate best practices on the challenges and opportunities within the field.
According to a statement, the organization’s members will “conduct research, recommend best practices, and publish research under an open license in areas such as ethics, fairness, and inclusivity; transparency, privacy, and interoperability; collaboration between people and AI systems; and the trustworthiness, reliability, and robustness of the technology. It does not intend to lobby government or other policymaking bodies.”
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The founding members of the organization will each contribute financial and research resources to the partnership and will share leadership with independent third-parties, such as academics, user group advocates, and industry domain experts.
– The possibilities for positively impacting a global society with advances in AI are numerous, ranging from connectivity, healthcare, and transportation. By openly collaborating with our peers and sharing findings, we aim to push new boundaries every day, not only within Facebook, but across the entire research community. To do so in partnership with these companies who share our vision will help propel the entire field forward in a thoughtful responsible way”, Yann LeCun, the Director of Facebook AI Research, says in the statement.
The formation of the group comes almost a year after the announcement of OpenAI, a non-profit organization intelligence research lab, with financial backing from Elon Musk, Sam Altman, Peter Thiel and others.
