Former Intel CEO launches a benchmark to measure AI alignment

After former Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger capped off a 40+ yr profession on the semiconductor large in December, many puzzled the place would Gelsinger go subsequent. On Thursday, the previous Intel CEO revealed one piece of his subsequent chapter: making an attempt to make sure AI fashions assist a flourishing humanity.

In partnership with a “religion tech” firm he first invested in roughly 10 years in the past referred to as Gloo, Gelsinger launched a brand new benchmark — Flourishing AI, or FAI — to check how effectively AI fashions align with sure human values. The FAI benchmark relies on The World Flourshing Research, a survey directed by Harvard and Baylor College, to measure human well-being all over the world.

Gloo took six core classes from the examine — Character and Advantage; Shut Social Relationships, Happiness and Life Satisfaction, Which means and Objective, Psychological and Bodily Well being, Monetary and Materials Stability — and added another, Religion and Spirituality, to check LLMs.

In an interview with The New Stack, Gelsinger mentioned he’s “lived on the intersection of religion tech my whole life.”