Artificial Intelligence and Nonprofits — The Digital Civil Society Lab | Medium

by Hallie Siegel

22 December 2015

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Unlike the machine learning experts who are joining OpenAI, I see no reason to assume that the nonprofit structure is sufficient to accomplish their goals. If the challenges of AI are as great as these minds seem to suggest, is the “lesser evil” OK?
I commend them for directing their expertise toward beneficial uses of the technology. I also think it’s time to reconsider the institutional technology of the nonprofit corporation. We need institutions that can generate, direct and hold digital resources for long-term public benefit; I’m not sure the current nonprofit firm is the answer.

Hallie Siegel’s insight:
Interesting criticism of the non-profit model in this context.

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