EBay joins partnership addressing concerns around AI in business

The idea that the burgeoning field of artificial intelligence in business applications could benefit from standards and best practices motivated several of the largest tech companies in the world to found the Partnership on AI. The Partnership focuses on areas of AI use, like privacy, fairness, equitable distribution of jobs and making sure AI is applied to social problems in a positive way. Now, the Partnership is expanding its ranks beyond the original founding members of Amazon, Facebook, Google, Microsoft and IBM. EBay Inc., which announced this month it will participate, is the latest to join the exclusive group. In an interview, Sanjeev Katariya, eBay's chief architect, said the company's decision to take part is all about ensuring that, as AI in business becomes more common, it lives up to a high standard for both ethics and efficacy. What does eBay hope to get out of participating in the Partnership?