Founders of LinkedIn and eBay have donated $10m each to the Ethics and Governance of AI Fund (EGAIF), a body that funds researchers contemplating the ethical problems that AI poses. Led by MIT’s Media Lab and Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society, the group aims to inform businesses and governments about the ethical ramifications of AI-adoption. Smaller donations of $5m from the Knight Foundation, and $1m from the Flora Hewlett Foundation, and Raptor Group founder Jim Pallotta, round out the initial capital. Other groups with similar interests exist, with Amazon, IBM, Facebook, Google, and Microsoft founding the Partnership on AI back in September, as well as the OpenAI group that gained a lot of coverage thanks to the…