Cambridge has opened a 10 million research facility to study the impact of AI on humanity

The University of Cambridge has opened a 10 million research centre to explore the impact of artificial intelligence, Wired reports. The Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence -- first announced last December and funded with a research grant from the Leverhulme Trust -- will study the impacts of this "potentially epoch-making technological development, both short and long term." The centre's new website details a list of projects that its researchers will look at. The centre also writes on its website that its aim is to build a new interdisciplinary community of researchers, with strong links to technologists and the policy world. Led by Cambridge philosophy professor Huw Price, the centre, which opened on Monday, will work in conjunction with the university's Centre for the Study of Existential Risk (CSER), which is funded by Skype cofounder Jaan Tallinn and looks at emerging risks to humanity's future including climate change, disease, warfare, and artificial intelligence.