DeepMind's AI develops popular policy for distributing public money

Could artifical intelligence make better funding decisions than senators? A "democratic" AI system has learned how to develop the most popular policy for redistributing public money among people playing an online game. "Many of the problems that humans face are not merely technological, but require us to coordinate in society and in our economies for the greater good," says Raphael Koster at UK-based AI company DeepMind. "For AI to be able to help, it needs to learn directly about human values." The DeepMind team trained its artificial intelligence to learn from more than 4000 people as well as from computer simulations in an online, four-player economic game.