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Google launches Digital Futures Mission with $20M in grants to help ‘accountable AI’

Google and its charitable arm, Google.org, launched the Digital Futures Mission, an initiative to check accountable synthetic intelligence (AI) applied sciences, on Sept. 11. 

The Mountain View firm will make investments a complete of $20 million in grants to main assume tanks and tutorial establishments all over the world with the expressed goal “to facilitate dialogue and inquiry” into AI applied sciences.

In line with a weblog publish, Google needs to address problems with equity, bias, misinformation, safety and the way forward for work via deep collaboration with outdoors organizations and a dedication to facilitating accountable dialogue:

“By means of this venture, we’ll help researchers, arrange convenings and foster debate on public coverage options to encourage the accountable growth of AI.”

Awardees who’ve already obtained grants below the fund embrace the Aspen Institute, the Brookings Establishment, the Carnegie Endowment for Worldwide Peace, the Heart for a New American Safety, the Heart for Strategic and Worldwide Research, the Institute for Safety and Expertise, Management Convention Schooling Fund, MIT Work of the Future, R Road Institute and SeedAI.

The timing of the venture’s launch comes because the CEOs of a few of the largest expertise companies on the earth are set to convene in Washington, D.C. on Sept. 13 for an “AI Discussion board” hosted by U.S. Senate Majority Chief Chuck Schumer.

Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai and former Google CEO and chairman Eric Schmidt are slated to attend alongside Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Tesla CEO Elon Musk, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and co-founder Invoice Gates, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and representatives from civil rights organizations.

Not solely will the occasion deliver collectively the CEOs of U.S. firms value a mixed complete market worth of properly over $6 trillion, but it surely additionally seemingly marks the primary time Zuckerberg and Musk will probably be in the identical room collectively since their much-hyped mixed martial arts match fell aside.

In line with Senator Schumer’s workplace, the occasion’s function is to discuss synthetic intelligence coverage. Will probably be the primary of 9 such conferences scheduled all through the autumn — although it stays unclear whether or not continuing occasions will characteristic the identical visitor record.