We’re asking what’s possible for health, natural disaster and weather resilience, learning, and economic opportunity.
Google is using AI to speed up scientific breakthroughs that help people all over the world. These tools are already detecting diseases earlier, predicting natural disasters like floods and wildfires, and breaking down language barriers. They’re also helping students learn better and supporting workers as jobs change. By working with experts everywhere, Google hopes to use this technology to solve some of the world’s toughest problems.
Today, we reached a significant milestone that stands as a testament to decades of AI research and advancement: Google technologies now support more than300 languages, spoken by 7 billion people — representing 86% of the global population. To help us understand how these tools are driving real-world opportunity, we also releasednew interactive insightstoday with our AI & Economy ATLAS, the most comprehensive look at how real people are using AI g…
What ties all of this work together? It is the belief that advances in AI can accelerate scientific progress in ways that will directly improve people’s lives today and in the future. This is a key element of what motivates our work in AI. We’re focusing our work in key areas that matter most: making disease detectable, treatable, and preventable, predicting natural disasters, expanding learning, and unlocking economic opportunities for more peop…
While the possibilities are exciting, the benefits of AI are not guaranteed. Making them real — and mitigating their challenges and risks — demands that society works together. Though there is more still to do, AI’s progress is already making it possible for us to aspire to do bold and ambitious things that can benefit people, and to ask and address questions that were once considered impossible to solve.
We’re making progress in using AI to improve disease detection and diagnosis, and to better understand health conditions:
To protect people’s safety and livelihoods, we need accurate predictions of natural disasters and weather. To make accurate predictions, we must understand the physical earth. Here’s how our technical and scientific progress is already making a difference incrisis prediction and detection:
Learning is the bedrock of economic and societal progress. The world has made huge strides in education: 90% of primary school-aged children globally are enrolled in school, and approximately 87% complete their primary education. But 2022researchshowed uneven access to education, differences in education quality, and limited content availability across languages, among other issues. Global learning outcomes have declined over the last two decades…
AI offers a profound opportunity toexpand accessto knowledge and support learners and educators alike:
Tackling challenges and focusing on responsible design:AI presents real challenges for learning, including questions on accuracy, safety, critical thinking, cheating, and learning loss. That’s why we havepartneredwith ISTE+ASCD to provide AI literacy training to all 6 million educators in the U.S., whileconductingongoing and rigorousresearchto ensure we design our educational tools with teachers in the lead, and AI as the assistant. We still have…
Across the economy, AI can drive innovation and productivity for workers, businesses, and organizations across sectors. Its true value isn’t in what it does on its own, but in how people choose to use it and what they build with it:
Grounded in our company’s founding mission, we aremaking important stridesin breaking down languages and accessibility barriers with products, research, and models that understand the world’s languages exactly as they are expressed:
We believe that such bold ambitions for the societal benefits of AI must always be accompanied by an equal commitment to responsibility. This is the basis of ourbold and responsible approach to AI. Beyond our ongoing work to address the immediate and future risks of AI (detailed in ourannual updates), the application of AI and science presents distinct challenges: On the one hand, we need the right detection, reporting, and mitigationtools in pla…
We believe advancing scientific discovery and bringing those benefits to communities requires that we collaborate deeply with many other researchers and scientists working to tackle similar issues, including academia, national laboratories, philanthropic foundations, non-governmental organizations, governments, other companies, and local partners. The examples of advances cited above have benefited from such research collaborations and our ownGoo…
As Nobel laureate Joel Mokyrnoted, new technology drives scientific advances, which in turn drive new technologies, creating “a positive feedback loop that can keep growing with no end in sight.” And it does so in ways that have improved people’s wellbeing and propelled societal progress. AI is the most powerful engine for that loop we have ever built — and we’re just getting started.
Read more about how we’re using AI to help people, improve lives, and benefit societyat ourwebsite.
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As Google’s SVP of Research, Technology & Society, James oversees Google Research and leads efforts across Google and Alphabet to responsibly shape and advance our most ambitious innovations to benefit people and society.