OpenAI Foundation is beginning to put new funding to work and expects to invest at least $1 billion over the next year in four areas: life sciences and curing diseases, jobs and economic impact, AI resilience, and community programs. It puts the biggest early emphasis on health and science, including Alzheimer’s research, better public health datasets, and support for work on high-burden diseases, with the broader goal of helping AI speed up medical discovery and treatment development. The Foundation also says it is starting work on how AI will affect jobs, while funding efforts around child safety, biosecurity, and safer AI systems as part of its AI resilience program. The piece adds that the group is expanding its leadership team with new hires for life sciences, AI resilience, civil society, finance, and operations, and frames all of this as an early step in making sure advanced AI creates real public benefit while helping society prepare for its risks.

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