Google is hosting a global contest to develop AI that's beneficial for humanity

One of the biggest hurdles in the field of artificial intelligence is preventing it from developing the same intrinsic faults and biases as its human creators, and in using AI to solve social issues instead of simply automating tasks. Now, Google, one of the world's leading organizations developing AI software today, is launching a global competition to help spur the development of applications and research that have positive impacts on the field and society at large. The competition, called the Google AI Impact Challenge, was announced today at an event called AI for Social Good held at the company's Sunnyvale, California office. Google is positioning it as a way to integrate nonprofits, universities, and other organizations not within the corporate and profit-driven world of Silicon Valley into the future-looking development of AI research and applications. The company says it will award up to $25 million to a number of grantees to "help transform the best ideas into action."