Researchers at the University of Michigan have been exploring the need to set ethics standards and policies when it comes to the use of artificial intelligence, and they now have their own place to do so. The university has created a new Center of Ethics, Society and Computing (ESC) that will focus on AI, data usage, augmented and virtual reality, privacy, open data and identity. According to the center's website, the name and abbreviation alludes to the "ESC" key on a computer keyboard, which was added to interrupt a program when it produced unwanted results. "In the same way, the Center for Ethics, Society and Computing (ESC -- pronounced'escape') is dedicated to intervening when digital media and computing technologies reproduce inequality, exclusion, corruption, deception, racism or sexism," the center's mission statement reads. The center will bring together scholars who are committed to "feminist, justice-focused, inclusive and interdisciplinary approaches to computing," the university said in a news release.