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Ensure AI serves the public good

The Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society is home to the world’s foremost experts in AI safety who are working together to help revolutionary tech to serve the common good.

New technologies continue to reshape our lives, particularly when it comes to artificial intelligence. But as AI technology rapidly evolves, how can we help ensure it works to our collective benefit? What obligations do companies have to evaluate AI’s impacts on individuals and humanity? Are there ways we can foster responsible AI development while ensuring the technology continues to spur innovation and open exciting new research and economic opportunities?

The Schwartz Reisman Institute is playing a strong global role in ensuring that AI continues to work for humanity’s benefit. Right now, we are building on our important contributions to this topic and galvanizing our scholarly resources around the challenge of keeping AI systems in check.

David Lie, Director, Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society

The Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society is bringing some of the world’s leading experts on AI safety together to help answer these complex questions. The institute is leading new AI research and tools that advance AI safety and to promote its adoption through new tools, effective policies and knowledge mobilization, drawing on U of T’s renowned global strengths and partnerships in AI.

By supporting the Schwartz Reisman Institute at the University of Toronto, you can help drive interdisciplinary research and education that will enable governments, companies and communities better navigate and benefit from a future that will continue to be impacted by advances in AI technology.

To learn more about how you can support world-leading research that helps shape new technology for the public good, please contact Institutional Strategic Initiatives Advancement.

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