Evaluation of the Ethics and Governance of Artificial Intelligence Initiative

It is notable, responsive, and appropriate that the majority of the Initiative projects had various interdisciplinary aspects to them--either in their teams or in the people they convened. Grantees felt that such interdisciplinarity was important to continue and in the long term the community will be healthier and more resilient for this. While the "diversity disaster" in the broader AI field is well known.7 Within the sub-field of AI ethics and governance, grantees noted that a field that relied on the same voices, geographies and, often, institutions would result in missing perspectives. With 15% of grantees being non-US based8 and 80% of funding support academic institutions, on this front, and in line with their international ambitions9 the Initiative could have done more. There remains an imperative to push for substantive diversity of thought and experience, both within geographies and across them.