https://www.cnet.com/news/google-pledges-up-to-25-million-in-new-artificial-intelligence-challenge/

The challenge is part of a new Google initiative called "AI for Social Good." Google says the program is meant to help solve big, pressing problems, like issues around crisis relief, environmental conservation or sex trafficking. But it also comes at a time when Google has been under increased scrutiny over how its own artificial intelligence could be used, including in controversial military work or reported efforts to build a censored search engine in China.

At an event Monday, Google's artificial intelligence chief Jeff Dean didn't address those controversies directly, but he referenced Google's AI ethical principles, which outline how the company says it will and will not use the technology.