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Who is Vitalik Buterin? The Russian-Canadian programmer moved west as a six-year-old with his family. In the third grade, he was placed in a gifted program, allowing his math and programming interests to really flourish. When he was a 17-year-old, his father introduced him to the concept of cryptocurrencies for the first time. An inspired Buterin then turned all his attention to the fledgling economy. Unable to mine or buy Bitcoin (the only major crypto at the time), he found someone who was willing to pay in Bitcoin for blogs. For every blog he wrote, Buterin earned 5 Bitcoins.  In late 201...

Funding will advance ethical AI research BERRYVILLE, Va., Jan. 27, 2021 – The Berryville Institute of Machine Learning (BIML), a research think tank dedicated to safe, secure and ethical development of AI technologies, announced today that it is the recipient of a $150,000 grant from Open Philanthropy. BIML, which is already well known in ML circles for its pioneering document, “Architectural Risk Analysis of Machine Learning Systems: Toward More Secure Machine Learning,” will use the Open Philanthropy grant to further its scientific research on Machine Learning risk and get the word o...