Google Funds Leading Civil Rights Group’s New AI Policy Center

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 Rightsconfirmed 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.

Google.org contributes to a range of organizations “that are working to advance important research on AI and topics like bias, equity, the future of ...