Generative AI has actual potential to make progress on lots of humanity’s most urgent challenges. Current Google analysis reveals that AI is driving progress in direction of all 17 of the UN’s Sustainable Improvement Objectives (SDGs).
However boundaries to tapping into this know-how stay. A 2024 Google for Nonprofits survey discovered that whereas 4 in 5 nonprofits really feel that generative AI is relevant to their work, practically half usually are not utilizing the know-how attributable to a lack of information, coaching, instruments and funding. To assist tackle these boundaries, Google.org launched a Generative AI Accelerator in 2024 that supported 21 organizations to construct gen AI-powered options that collectively purpose to serve greater than 30 million individuals by 2028.
Individuals within the first Generative AI Accelerator constructed options throughout sectors, from tackling youth unemployment to advancing a extra sustainable future to empowering individuals going through humanitarian crises. Their work spanned Google.org’s three focus areas: Data, Abilities, and Studying; Scientific Development; and Resilient Communities. For instance:
