Carnegie Mellon to open research center focused on AI ethics

Carnegie Mellon University announced Wednesday that it's receiving a $10 million endowment from global law firm K&L Gates LLP to establish a new research center focused on the ethics of artificial intelligence. The K&L Gates Endowment for Ethics and Computational Technologies will support a senior professor and a junior professor, both in ethics and computational technologies. The endowment will also support three doctoral students whose studies relate to the field of ethics and computational science and technology. It will also be used to endow two funds for undergraduate students and to host a biennial conference on the subject. The new endowment comes at a time when the tech community is starting to grapple with the impact that emerging technologies could have on society.