Google report assesses how AI can best serve humanity

Google.org is today releasing a report that details how social impact startups, nonprofits, government policymakers, and academics can use machine learning to address some of humanity's biggest problems. The assessment is the result of analysis of more than 2,600 applications -- from 119 countries -- to the $25 million Google AI Impact Challenge, a global open call for projects that aim to use AI to serve humanity. Google used AI to arrive at its conclusions about how human-centered organizations can better use AI -- tapping natural language processing and clustering analysis techniques to review applications and internal assessment of applications. The AI analysis was supplemented by interviews with impact challenge applicants and recipients. Today's assessment of how civil society can improve AI implementations appears to be the first such report from a tech giant.