Research for Beneficial Artificial Intelligence - Future of Life Institute

Research Goal: The goal of AI research should be to create not undirected intelligence, but beneficial intelligence. It's no coincidence that the first Asilomar Principle is about research. On the face of it, the Research Goal Principle may not seem as glamorous or exciting as some of the other Principles that more directly address how we'll interact with AI and the impact of superintelligence. But it's from this first Principle that all of the others are derived. Simply put, without AI research and without specific goals by researchers, AI cannot be developed.