Former Intel CEO Launches AI Benchmark to Ensure Alignment with Human Values

After Pat Gelsinger, the former CEO of Intel, concluded his over 40-year tenure at the semiconductor giant in December, many speculated about his next steps. On Thursday, Gelsinger shared one aspect of his future plans: he aims to ensure that artificial intelligence models contribute positively to the well-being of humanity.

In collaboration with Gloo, a company that focuses on «faith technologies,» in which he first invested nearly a decade ago, Gelsinger introduced a new benchmark known as Flourishing AI, or FAI. This benchmark is designed to evaluate how well AI models align with specific human values. The FAI metric is grounded in results from a comprehensive global study on well-being conducted by Harvard and Baylor universities, which assessed the quality of life for individuals around the globe.

Gloo distilled the study into six key categories—character and virtue, close social relationships, happiness and life satisfaction, meaning and purpose, mental and physical health, and financial and material stability—and added an additional category of faith and spirituality for testing language models.

In an interview with The New Stack, Gelsinger remarked that he has “spent his entire life at the intersection of technology and faith.”

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