Google empowers 5,000 cloud employees in ethical AI - Express Computer

Google has trained over 5,000 employees who were part of its customer-facing Cloud teams in asking critical questions to spot potential ethical issues, such as whether an AI application might lead to economic or educational exclusion or cause physical, psychological, social or environmental harm. In addition to launching the initial'Tech Ethics' training that over 800 Googlers have taken since its launch last year, Google developed a new training for AI Principles issue spotting. "We piloted the course with more than 2,000 Googlers, and it is now available as an online self-study course to all Googlers across the company," the company said. Google recently released a version of this training as a mandatory course for customer-facing Cloud teams and 5,000 Cloud employees have already taken it. "Our goal is for Google to be a helpful partner not only to researchers and developers who are building AI applications, but also to the billions of people who use them in everyday products," said the tech giant.