Geoff Ralsston, a well -known startup community in the Wi -Combinator, has returned to the rings of formal investment, he Declaration Thursday.
The new fund of Raleston is called Safe Artificial Intelligence Fund or Saif, which is both a play on the thesis of its thesis and the words.
Ralston is especially looking for startups that “AI Protection, Protection and Responsible Structures” as its funds “ Website Description. He is planning to write $ 100,000 as a safe “Pang purpose”, he says, including $ 10 million caps. A safe, of course, investment tools of advanced pre-marks by the Wi-combinator now/after price.
Although most of these VCS are trying to invest in AII startups in these days, Raleston’s Tech has focused a bit more to the secure AI’s concept, though he acknowledges that the idea is a bit broad.
“Today, most of the world’s AI projects in the world are using the technology to solve or create new capacity or create new powers,” Raleston told TechCrunch, they are not necessary internally unsafe, but protection is not their initial concern, “Ralcton Techchen tells. “I wish to fund the startups whose initial purpose is safe AI – as I defined (very extensively).”
This list includes startups focusing on AI’s decision -making process or benchmark AI protection, such as the AI protection. It includes products that protect the intellectual property, which confirm that AI adheres to the consent requirements, fights with isolation and detects AI-exposed attacks. He wants to invest in such functional AI equipment in the Built-in AI equipment in security, such as better AI predict equipment and AI-enabled business discussion equipment that does not reveal corporate privacy to foreigners.
If it seems like the list of AI startups that are following many VCs, Ralston says an example that he will not come back: completely autonomous weapon.
He explained, “Of course, the use of AI which (will do) will be insecure: to create bioponos, to use the technology to manage the traditional weapon without any human in the loop, etc.,” he explained.
In fact, the region he wants to fund is the “arms protection system” that can detect or prevent attacks from AI weapons.
This is an interesting opposite view of today’s founder of defense technology and many of the VCs. As TechCrunch has previously stated that some people who have made AI weapons are increasingly floating the idea that these weapons will work better without any human beings.
Still all things AI is a crowded field for VCS nowadays. That’s where Raleston hopes his WAC connections can give him an advantage. Ralaston left WAC in 2022, three years later as president (replaced by Gary Tan) and as an advisor for a decade.
Raleston plans to propose a counseling on the Startup Excelletor in the Startup Exile, and promised to train them through how to apply on the WC. And he is proposing to help them tap enough investor networks.
Raleston is how big this fund is, how many startups he want to back, or who his LP supporters refused to say.
