Former Yombinator President Jeff Rallston launches a new box of artificial intelligence “Salama”

Jeff Raleston, known in the start -up community for his years in Y Combinator Declare Thursday.

The new new Rallston box is called the Safe AI Box or Saif, an explanation of its thesis and playing on the words.

Ralston is specifically looking for startups that “enhance the integrity of artificial intelligence, security and responsible publishing”, as its box Website Describing. He plans to write checks of $ 100,000 as a safe “Turkey”, he says, with a maximum of 10 million dollars. The treasury, of course, is the investment tool later later before the Yombinator seed.

Although most VCS these days are looking to invest in startups from artificial intelligence, Ralston’s Take focuses more on the idea of ​​safe artificial intelligence, although it admits that the concept is a bit wide.

“The vast majority of artificial intelligence projects in the world today use technology to solve problems, create efficiency, or create new capabilities. It is not necessarily unsafe in its essence, but safety is not its primary occupants.” “I intend to finance startups whose primary goal is safe from artificial intelligence – as it has (very widely).”

This list includes startups that focus on improving the integrity of artificial intelligence themselves, such as those that show the process of making decisions from artificial intelligence, or the integrity of artificial intelligence. It includes products that protect intellectual property, and those that ensure that artificial intelligence corresponds to compliance requirements, combating misleading information, and discovering attacks created from artificial intelligence. He also wants to invest in functional intelligence tools, taking into account the integrated safety, such as the best artificial intelligence prediction tools and commercial negotiating tools that support artificial intelligence that does not reveal companies’ secrets to foreigners.

If this looks like a list of startups AI followed by many VCS, Ralston says an example of something that is not up to it: completely independent weapons.

“There are definitely uses of artificial intelligence that will (will) be unsafe: using technology to create biological weapons, to manage traditional weapons without a person in the episode, etc.,” he explained.

In fact, one of the areas he wants to finance is “weapons safety systems” that can discover or prevent attacks from artificial intelligence weapons.

This is an interesting contradictory point of view of many founders of defense technology today and VCS. As mentioned by Techcrunch beforeSome people who were built with Amnesty International weapons were increasingly floating on the idea that such weapons would work better without a person.

All things are still Amnesty International is a crowded VCS field these days. This is the place where Rallston hopes to give his prayers in YC an advantage. Ralston YC left in 2022, three years later as president (Behind Gary Tan) and more than a decade as a consultant.

Ralston plans to provide the type of guidance he did in the Startup acceleration and promised to train them through how to apply to YC. It is exposed to helping them benefit from the large network of investors.

Rulston refused to determine the size of this fund, or the number of startups that he intends to support, or who are his LP supporters.