AI Weekly: DARPA seeks to better align AI with human intentions

Did you miss a session at the Data Summit? This week in AI, DARPA, the emerging technologies R&D agency of the U.S. Defense Department, launched a new program that aims to "align" AI systems with human decision-makers in domains where there isn't an agreed-upon right answer. Elsewhere, two prominent cofounders from LinkedIn and DeepMind, Reid Hoffman and Mustafa Suleyman, announced a new AI startup called Inflection AI that seeks to develop software that allows humans to talk to computers using everyday language. In a press release describing the new three-and-a-half-year program, DARPA says that the goal is to "evaluate and build trusted algorithmic decision-makers for mission-critical Department of Defense operations." Dubbed "In the Moment," or ITM, it focuses on the process of alignment -- building AI systems that accomplish what they're expected to accomplish.