Google Funds Leading Civil Rights Group’s New AI Policy Center
- Civil rights center to focus on ‘advancing equity’ with tech
- Funds were part of $20 million grant for AI policy initiatives
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Alphabet Inc.’s Google is funding a new center focused on crafting artificial intelligence policy at the country’s largest civil rights organization, which wants to ensure racial equity policies are built into the technology.
Google and the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights confirmed to Bloomberg News that Google.org, the company’s philanthropic arm, provided funding for the September launch of its “Center for Civil Rights and Technology,” alongside other technology companies and private foundations.