OpenAI is funding research into ‘AI morality’

One of the leading AI companies is funding academic research into algorithms that can predict humans’ moral judgements.

In a filing with the IRS, OpenAI Inc., OpenAI’s nonprofit org, disclosed that it awarded a grant to Duke University researchers for a project titled “Research AI Morality.” Contacted for comment, an OpenAI spokesperson pointed to a press release indicating the award is part of a larger, three-year, $1 million grant to Duke professors studying “making mo…