Funding new ways to study the ethics of AI: Stephen Schwarzman’s bequest to Oxford. From the article:

Stephen Schwarzman, head of Blackstone Group LP, has given 150 million pounds ($188 million) to the University of Oxford, the latest in a string of mega-donations to higher learning.

The contribution is the largest to the university since at least the Renaissance period, according to a University of Oxford statement. The money will help pay for a new humanities building and for the creation of an institute for the study of the ethics of artificial intelligence, with features including a 500-seat concert hall and a 250-seat auditorium.

The ethics institute “won’t just use the humanities, which are an unusual asset of Oxford,” Schwarzman said in a Bloomberg TV interview on Wednesday. “We’ll use the other major parts of the university. If you can bring all that to bear, we’ll have better outcomes.”

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