'There's all of these Big Tech billionaires who also are in big philanthropy now.' DAIR's research will scrutinize and critique these big firms. 'Let's say I antagonize a funder - not these, but others,' she said. Gebru said she wanted to remain independent, and has chosen to stay away from big name investors to avoid being influenced by large tech firms.

It has received a total of $3.7m in funding from philanthropic groups and non-profit orgs such as the MacArthur Foundation, Ford Foundation, Kapor Center, Open Society Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation, according to the Washington Post. The Distributed AI Research Institute (DAIR) is focused on studying social harms of AI, and how they can be best mitigated. Timnit Gebru, who was controversially fired from her position as co-lead Google's Ethical AI research team a year ago, has set up her own independent lab. Ex-Googler Ethical AI lead launches her own AI research lab If the AI-designed drug is capable of treating the disease it'll show that the technology is capable of developing new drugs at lower costs than traditional methods. 'We believe this is a significant milestone in the history of AI-powered drug discovery because to our knowledge the drug candidate is the first ever AI-discovered novel molecule based on an AI-discovered novel target.' 'We are very pleased to see Insilico Medicine's first antifibrotic drug candidate entering into the clinic,' said Feng Ren, chief scientific officer of Insilico Medicine. Healthy volunteers were selected for the trial to test for any side effects. After initial tests, ISM001-055 seemed so promising that Insilico Medicine decided to launch clinical trials. The molecule was designed to treat idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF), a lung disease that causes scar tissue to build inside the organ making it difficult for people to breathe properly. AI-designed drug to treat lung disease starts clinical trialsĬodenamed ISM001-055, the drug was first formulated by Pharma.AI, a software platform described as 'drug discovery engine' developed by startup Insilico Medicine, earlier this year in February. 'The ability to surveil and listen at scale in this rapid way – it is incredibly scary and chilling,' said Julie Mao, deputy director at Just Futures Law, an immigration legal group.

In one case, it allegedly found one inmate illegally collecting unemployment benefits. Prisoners, however, said the tool was used to catch crime.

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