OpenAI has announced a new program that will offer 10 grants of $100,000 each to fund experiments related to developing a democratic process for deciding what rules artificial intelligence (AI) systems should follow. Applicants are required to submit their applications by June 24, 2023, while successful applicants will be selected and notified by July 14, 2023. The program will require researchers to establish metrics for evaluating the quality of their approaches and to come up with new metrics to enhance a healthy democratic process. Other factors to consider include measures to prevent inappropriate behavior, such as trolling and fake accounts and strategies for inclusiveness and representativeness. OpenAI encourages scalable processes that can be conducted virtually and prioritizes making information elicited by deliberation processes actionable, understandable, and trustworthy for participants.
OpenAI is a non-profit organization dedicated to advanced artificial intelligence research and development. Its focus is to ensure that intelligent machines operate in ways that benefit humanity and that their alignment with human values is guaranteed.
The person mentioned in this article is not specifically an individual but rather a broadly representative group of people who will be tasked with deliberating and ultimately deciding on an outcome via a transparent decision-making process. The goal of the program is to establish a democratic process that incorporates diverse perspectives reflecting the public interest, with no single individual, company, or country dictating the decisions regarding how AI behaves.
