DC Daily Roundup: Inside UMCP’s New Ethical AI Project; HBCU Founder Excellence; a Big VC Shutters MoCo Office

The Artificial Intelligence Interdisciplinary Institute at Maryland (AIM) will focus on what it calls “ethical AI development,” UMD announced last week.

The institute will be interdisciplinary, focused on research and education. It’ll offer degrees and certifications too. I had the chance to chat with Hal Daumé, the institute’s inaugural director, about the details.

“We need to start thinking about — not just AI as a technology that we’re developing in some vacuum that doesn’t affect people,” he told me. “And we really need to think about its impact on people in society.”

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