Our nonprofit organization, OpenAI, Inc., is launching a program to award ten $100,000 grants to fund experiments in setting up a democratic process for deciding what rules AI systems should follow, within the bounds defined by the law.
— Read on openai.com/blog/democratic-inputs-to-ai

*********OpenAI isn’t really open. It’s actually owned by Microsoft who bought it a few years back and some other private investors plus, obviously some of the cofounders are investors which is usually what happens when there’s lots of $$$$) so I am scratching my head as to why this “democratic process” is important to them now….🙄