Artificial Intelligence and Nonprofits -- The Digital Civil Society Lab

You've probably heard about OpenAI -- a new nonprofit to focus on artificial intelligence research that is good for humanity. So here we have a case of knowledgeable people recognizing a threat and deciding that the way forward is to create a nonprofit organization. This moment has some historical precedent. In 1955, Albert Einstein, Bertrand Russell and several other scientists got together and issued a manifesto about the dangers of nuclear technologies. It would launch decades of Pugwash conferences and the anti-nuclear movement. The founders of OpenAI also issued a manifesto.