{"id":365,"date":"2015-07-08T11:30:03","date_gmt":"2015-07-08T11:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oddballnews.com\/?p=365"},"modified":"2022-10-25T17:24:55","modified_gmt":"2022-10-25T17:24:55","slug":"billionaire-donates-10-million-to-save-humanity-from-an-ai-takeover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oddballnews.com\/billionaire-donates-10-million-to-save-humanity-from-an-ai-takeover\/","title":{"rendered":"Billionaire Donates $10 Million To Save Humanity From An AI Takeover"},"content":{"rendered":"
A wealthy business entrepreneur has donated $10 million in order to fund Artificial Intelligence research projects to keep them \u201cbeneficial for humanity\u201d.<\/p>\n
A 44-year-old entrepreneur, engineer, inventor and investor, Elon Musk, donated the large sum of money to fund different research projects to keep AI controllable.<\/p>\n
One such study would look at artificial intelligence weapons to decipher how to keep these under human control. And, part of the money will go to funding an AI-specific research centre run by Oxford and Cambridge universities.<\/p>\n
Musk is the founder and CEO of SpaceX, CEO and product architect for Tesla Motors, as well as a chairman for SolarCity.<\/p>\n