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WestExec — Report on Assurance in Machine Learning Systems

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  • Category: Longtermism
  • Focus Area: Potential Risks from Advanced AI
  • Organization Name: WestExec
  • Amount: $540,000

  • Award Date: February 2020

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    Grant investigator: Luke Muehlhauser

    This page was reviewed but not written by the grant investigator. WestExec staff also reviewed this page prior to publication.


    Open Philanthropy recommended a contract of $540,000 with WestExec to support the production and distribution of a report on advancing policy, process, and funding for the Department of Defense’s work on test, evaluation, verification, and validation for deep learning systems. This falls within our focus on the future of artificial intelligence.

    This project was supported through a contractor agreement. While we typically do not publish pages for contractor agreements, we occasionally opt to do so.

    The grant amount was updated in October and November 2020 and May 2021.

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