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Massachusetts Institute of Technology — AI Trends and Impacts Research (2020)

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  • Focus Area: Potential Risks from Advanced AI
  • Organization Name: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Amount: $550,688

  • Award Date: November 2020

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    Neil Thompson after giving a talk in Ghana. (Photo courtesy of MIT.)

    Grant investigators: Luke Muehlhauser

    This page was reviewed but not written by the grant investigator. Massachusetts Institute of Technology staff also reviewed this page prior to publication.


    Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of $550,688 to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to support research led by Neil Thompson on modeling the trends and impacts of AI and computing. The research will consist of projects to learn how algorithmic improvement affects economic growth, gather data on the performance and compute usage of machine learning methods, and estimate cost models for deep learning projects.

    This falls within our focus area of potential risks from advanced artificial intelligence.

    The grant amount was updated in October 2021.

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