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A Privacy Hero’s Final Wish: An Institute to Redirect AI’s Future | WIRED
This article discusses the AI Objectives Institute (AOI), an organization founded by Peter Eckersley, a prominent privacy and technology figure, shortly before his death.
- The main points are as follows: 1.
- Eckersley founded AOI with the goal of guiding the direction of development of artificial intelligence (AI) toward “human flourishing.
- After Eckersley’s death, colleagues Deger Turan and Brittney Gallagher took over AOI’s activities.
- AOI’s goal is to redirect the purpose of AI so that it does not exacerbate problems such as environmental destruction and growing poverty.
- Specific projects under development include a system for surveying and recommending the needs of city residents and a chatbot that records users’ daily lives in an interactive format.
- Eckersley has previously had a track record of making big changes with simple tools, including the launch of Let’s Encrypt, a groundbreaking project that will significantly advance encryption on the Web.
- Because of AI’s influence on the future, Eckersley came to believe that guiding the direction of AI was his most important task in his later years.
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