K&L Gates makes $10M gift to CMU
Source: Patty Tascarella
One of Pittsburgh’s largest law firms has made a $10 million gift to establish the K&L Gates Endowment for Ethics and Computational Technologies at Carnegie Mellon University.
K&L Gates LLP announced the endowment to study ethical issues posed by artificial intelligence and other endowed funds on Wednesday.
The gift will be used to create new faculty positions and doctoral fellowships, two funds for undergraduate students and a biennial international conference to share new research and scholarship and to provide a forum on critical issues.
“Law and technology converge at a profoundly important and signature 21st century challenge: how to define ethical boundaries surrounding the emergence of artificial intelligence and other cutting-edge computational technologies,” K&L Gates Chairman and Global Managing Partner Peter Kalis said in a prepared statement. “As a society, our ethical choices in this field will greatly influence what kind of world we will have. Its values. Its culture. Its laws. And, ultimately, its humanity. With this initiative, we honor not only our longstanding relationship with CMU, but also the commitment of both organizations to our civilization now and in the future.”
K&L Gates, founded in 1946, employs 2,000 lawyers around the world. It is also Pittsburgh’s eighth-largest private company.
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