OpenAI offers $100,000 grants for ideas on AI governance

FILE PHOTO: OpenAI logo is seen in this illustration taken March 31, 2023. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration

(Reuters) -OpenAI, the startup behind the popular ChatGPT artificial intelligence chatbot, said Thursday it will award 10 equal grants from a fund of $1 million for experiments in democratic processes to determine how AI software should be governed to address bias and other factors.

The $100,000 grants will go to recipients who present compelling frameworks for answering such questions as whether AI ought to criticize public figures and what it should consider the “median individual” in the world, according to a blog post announcing the fund.