Greylock Partners—Greylock partner Reid Hoffman co-funded $27M Ethics and Governance of AI initiative at MIT and Harvard
Greylock partner Reid Hoffman, along with eBay founder Pierre Omidyar, established a $27 million Ethics and Governance of Artificial Intelligence Fund as a joint venture between the MIT Media Lab and the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University. Hoffman also joined the board of Stanford's Institute for Human-Centered AI (HAI) and launched the Hoffman-Yee Research Grants for interdisciplinary AI research. While attributed to Hoffman personally, his role as a Greylock partner connects the firm to AI ethics investment.
Scoring Impact
| Topic | Direction | Relevance | Contribution |
|---|---|---|---|
| AI Oversight | +toward | secondary | +0.50 |
| AI Safety | +toward | primary | +1.00 |
| Overall incident score = | +0.643 | ||
Score = avg(topic contributions) × significance (high ×1.5) × confidence (0.57)
Evidence (1 signal)
GeekWire reported Hoffman and Omidyar launched $27M AI ethics fund at MIT and Harvard
GeekWire reported that Greylock partner Reid Hoffman and eBay founder Pierre Omidyar launched a $27 million Ethics and Governance of Artificial Intelligence Fund as a joint venture between the MIT Media Lab and the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University. Hoffman stated that AI 'research without a code of ethics is pretty scary.'