A few months later, she landed a job at Google.
There, her mandate was to help lead a new department devoted to the potentially harmful effects of artificial intelligence, a field of research known as ethical AI. Artificial intelligence has become increasingly vital to Google's business, which has around 200 employees working on what it calls "responsible AI" for its own products.
CEO Sundar Pichai has repeatedly doubled down on AI's importance to Google, once calling it "more profound than fire or electricity." The "ethical AI" team, which currently has around a dozen employees and sits within Google's Research group, was created to study the longer-term risks of artificial intelligence that go beyond Google's own walls, and how to prevent them.