Accelerating Google.org’s future impact with AI

Google’s founders outlined a vision for Google.org to “ambitiously use invention and important resources to nan largest of nan world’s problems." Since that time, Google.org has provided much than $18 cardinal successful donated products; heavy investigation support; and cutting-edge acquisition programs to thousands of nonprofits, universities and educators astir nan world. In nan past 10 years alone, Google.org and Googlers person provided astir $6 cardinal successful rate funding.

The activity of organizations Google.org supports has reached much than 300 cardinal people: mounting up much than 3 cardinal group pinch skills for well-paying jobs; equipping much than 10 cardinal students and teachers pinch basal skills to much safely navigate nan integer world; delivering alleviation and betterment resources to much than 100 cardinal group successful crisis; and helping galore millions much successful different ways. And Google.org Fellows and volunteers person spent much than 4 cardinal pro bono and unpaid hours moving connected high-impact projects.

Today, astatine our first ever Google.org Impact Summit successful Sunnyvale, California, nan Google.org squad will stock plans to put much profoundly to support captious activity crossed Knowledge, Skills and Learning; Scientific Advancement; and Resilient Communities. These attraction areas are cardinal to Google’s identity, and person been a defining attraction of Google.org’s societal effect activity since its inception. Much of nan activity Google.org costs and supports will trim crossed 2 aliases moreover each 3 of these areas, arsenic nan challenges that look america each go much analyzable and interconnected.

Knowledge, Skills, and Learning

Google’s ngo is “to shape nan world’s accusation and make it universally accessible and useful.” Access to accusation lets group thrive: It helps them summation knowledge, find opportunities and observe pathways to a much unafraid future. More than 90 cardinal learners globally person participated successful Google.org’s acquisition programs and platforms, and this attraction area going guardant will thief guarantee everyone, particularly group successful marginalized communities, tin entree nan digital, method and AI skills to prosecute opportunities successful nan integer economy.

The powerfulness of AI successful acquisition settings is evident. A awesome illustration of this is nan AI-based program John Jay College and DataKind developed to place students astatine consequence of dropping out, truthful advisors could supply them pinch proactive support. The programme helped boost elder graduation rates by an unprecedented 32%. Today Google.org is committing an further $8 cardinal of support and a Google.org Fellowship to thief DataKind bring this solution to 100 further colleges crossed nan U.S.

Google.org will besides lend a further $12 cardinal done nan extremity of 2024 to organizations transforming acquisition equitably and responsibly done AI. This activity will see scaling AI training for educators and offering integer skills and computing acquisition pathways to students worldwide.

Scientific Advancement

Google has ever been astatine nan forefront of advancements successful investigation and science, pioneering galore of nan breakthroughs down caller technology. Over nan past 5 years, Google.org has provided much than $200 cardinal to assistance organizations utilizing precocious applications of AI to support nan Sustainable Development Goals and other pressing societal challenges.

To much quickly recognize AI’s imaginable to make headway against complex, interconnected, world issues, coming Google.org is announcing a caller backing approach. “AI Collaboratives” will bring together organizations crossed sectors to study from each other’s successes, unearth communal roadblocks and collaborate connected caller AI-powered solutions.

Each AI Collaborative will attraction connected a circumstantial section wherever AI has nan imaginable to create wide affirmative impact. Google.org will activity together pinch master partners to specify nan AI Collaborative’s goals. Then, done funding, engagement pinch Google Research, in-person workshops and caller studies, we’ll promote others to subordinate successful and return action to scope these goals.

Being bold pinch caller exertion besides intends supporting nan basal investigation that fuels innovation, particularly organizations and collaborations that attraction connected responsibility and inclusivity. Over nan adjacent year, Google.org is committing a further $40 cardinal to nan world investigation organization for foundational investigation that develops AI responsibly. For overmuch of this work, Google researchers will collaborate alongside awardees to thief backing recipients ace difficult problems and unfastened up caller ways of thinking.

Resilient Communities

Google is committed to improving nan lives of arsenic galore group arsenic imaginable some online and successful nan communities wherever Google labor unrecorded and work. Google.org will proceed to support organizations and programs that reside challenges astatine a organization level — for illustration hunger, housing and access to nationalist benefits — and advance integer wellbeing and safety, particularly for young people.

Helping young group to beryllium assured and savvy users of exertion is captious to protect them from online harms. Over nan past 2 years, nan Raspberry Pi Foundation has collaborated pinch Google DeepMind and section experts connected nan Experience AI program, which equips teachers pinch resources to amended and animate 11- to 14-year-olds astir AI. Since its motorboat successful April 2023, this programme has been accessed by educators crossed 130 countries, pinch a system learning travel that emphasizes morals though real-world examples, and culturally applicable contented for divers students.

Now, pinch $10 cardinal from Google.org, Raspberry Pi Foundation intends to bring nan Experience AI programme to much than 2 cardinal young group crossed Europe, Middle East and Africa, truthful they tin go forward-thinking, responsible and safe users of AI. You tin study much astir this caller activity here.

Supporting resilient communities is besides astir supporting nan nonprofits that underpin them. A recent Google.org survey of thousands of nonprofits recovered that 4 successful 5 of them said generative AI whitethorn beryllium applicable to their activity — but astir half said their statement is not presently utilizing nan technology. To reside that, coming Google.org is besides announcing caller AI resources for nonprofits, whether they’re conscionable getting started pinch AI aliases are fresh to present an AI-based societal effect task to nan world. You tin publication much here.

Over nan past 20 years Google.org has worked pinch unthinkable committed partners to bring opportunity to much group astir nan world, and AI provides america pinch a profound opportunity to person moreover greater impact complete nan adjacent 20 years.