According to Cointelegraph, Google and its charitable arm, Google.org, have launched the Digital Futures Project, an initiative aimed at studying responsible artificial intelligence (AI) technologies. The company plans to invest a total of $20 million in grants to leading think tanks and academic institutions worldwide to facilitate dialogue and inquiry into AI technologies.

Google aims to address issues such as fairness, bias, misinformation, security, and the future of work through deep collaboration with outside organizations and a commitment to facilitating responsible discussion. Awardees who have already received grants under the fund include the Aspen Institute, the Brookings Institution, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, the Center for a New American Security, the Center for Strategic and International Studies, the Institute for Security and Technology, Leadership Conference Education Fund, MIT Work of the Future, R Street Institute, and SeedAI.

The project's launch coincides with the upcoming AI Forum in Washington, D.C., on September 13, hosted by U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer. The event will bring together CEOs of major technology corporations, including Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai, former Google CEO and chairman Eric Schmidt, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Tesla CEO Elon Musk, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and co-founder Bill Gates, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, and representatives from civil rights organizations. The forum aims to discuss artificial intelligence policy and will be the first of nine such meetings scheduled throughout the fall.