Why we deal with AI (and to what finish)

It’s an thrilling time within the improvement of AI. Our strategy to growing and harnessing the potential of AI is grounded in our founding mission — to prepare the world’s info and make it universally accessible and helpful — and it’s formed by our dedication to enhance the lives of as many individuals as potential. It’s our view that AI is now, and greater than ever, vital to delivering on that mission and dedication.

We imagine that AI is a foundational and transformational know-how that may present compelling and useful advantages to individuals and society by way of its capability to help, complement, empower, and encourage individuals in virtually each discipline of human endeavor. It has the potential to contribute to tackling a few of society’s most urgent challenges and alternatives, from the on a regular basis to the extra inventive and imaginative.

As an info and laptop science firm, we goal to and have been on the forefront of advancing the frontier of AI by way of our path-breaking and field-defining analysis to develop extra succesful and helpful AI. From this analysis and improvement, we’re bringing breakthrough improvements into the actual world to help individuals and profit society in all places by way of our infrastructure, instruments, merchandise, and providers, in addition to by way of enabling and dealing with others to learn society. We’re additionally pursuing improvements that may assist to unlock scientific discoveries and to sort out humanity’s biggest challenges and alternatives. A lot of our improvements are already helping and benefiting individuals (in some instances billions of individuals), communities, companies, and organizations, and society broadly — with extra such improvements nonetheless to return.

On the similar time, we perceive that AI, as a still-emerging know-how, poses varied and evolving complexities and dangers. Our improvement and use of AI should tackle these dangers. That’s why we as an organization think about it an crucial to pursue AI responsibly. We’re dedicated to main and setting the usual in growing and transport helpful and useful functions, making use of moral rules grounded in human values, and evolving our approaches as we study from analysis, expertise, customers, and the broader neighborhood.

We additionally imagine that getting AI proper — which to us includes innovating and delivering broadly accessible advantages to individuals and society, whereas mitigating its dangers — have to be a collective effort involving us and others, together with researchers, builders, customers (people, companies, and different organizations), governments, regulators and residents. It’s vital that we collectively earn public belief if AI is to ship on its potential for individuals and society. As an organization, we embrace the chance to work with others to get AI proper.

We’re satisfied that the AI-enabled improvements we’re targeted on growing and delivering boldly and responsibly are helpful, compelling, and have the potential to help and enhance lives of individuals in all places — that is what compels us. And we’re enthusiastic about what lies forward in 2023 and past as we get able to share some new revolutionary experiences!

– James Manyika, Jeff Dean, Demis Hassabis, Marian Croak and Sundar Pichai