Facebook Endows AI Ethics Institute at German University TUM
- Company will invest $7.5 million in project over five years
- First time Facebook has created this kind of institute
Students by the main gate of the Technical University of Munich's campus.
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Facebook Inc. is endowing a new institute devoted to the ethics of artificial intelligence at the Technical University of Munich, in Germany.
The new center, which Facebook is funding with an initial grant of $7.5 million over five years, will investigate issues around AI safety, fairness, privacy and transparency, Joaquin Quinonero Candela, Facebook’s director of applied machine learning, said in a blog post.