The Foundation and Frothly, the independent research institute in San Francisco that runs the Turing Registry, have begun a research partnership on the oversight of optical implants and the software inside them.
The first stage is a two-year scoping study, funded by a Foundation grant of ¥38 million, which will ask what independent oversight of optical implants should look like: who should evaluate their software, who should record when they cause harm, and what should happen to them when their makers stop supporting them.
The Foundation’s endowment is mostly invested in a company that makes implants, which is why it has asked an organisation that holds no shares and sells nothing to lead the evaluation side of the work.
Frothly accepts no funding that comes with conditions on its findings. The grant carries none.