Wednesday, September 16, 2026

Indus river dolphin (Platanista minor)): Greetings from free-to-students' World Univ & Sch building on MIT OCW in 7 languages, and which is wiki too to Five Branches University of Traditional Chinese Medicine in Santa Cruz * * * Mapping 9B (9 billion) possible single letter genetic changes across the human genome with AlphaGenome Atlas and made it openly available to researchers

 


Greetings from free-to-students' World Univ & Sch building on MIT OCW in 7 languages, and which is wiki too to Five Branches University


Dear Nick and Sandra, All, at Five Branches University Graduate School of Traditional Chinese Medicine in Santa Cruz,  


nwhancock@fivebranches.edu, scadmissions@fivebranches.edu, receptionist@fivebranches.edu, Edward Smyth <esmythmd@gmail.com>, Scott Gordon MacLeod <president@worlduniversityandschool.org>, Sid Mazumdar <sid.mazumdar@gmail.com>, Caleb & Martha Johnson Alexander <galexand@jhsph.edu>, Ann Brown <annieb@gorge.net>, "Brennan, Karen" <karen_brennan@gse.harvard.edu>, Byron Hann <byronhann1@gmail.com>, Robert Byrne <rob.f.byrne@gmail.com>, Charles Nesson <nesson@gmail.com>, Dean MacCannell <edmaccannell@ucdavis.edu>, "Matchett, David" <dmatchett@gmail.com>, "David S. Kong" <dkong@mit.edu>, Dennis Epple <epple@andrew.cmu.edu>, Dick Robb <rrobbmd@verizon.net>, Elliott Thurston <esthur7362@gmail.com>, Eric Thun <eric.thun@sbs.ox.ac.uk>, Erinn Andrews <erinn.andrews@gmail.com>, Erica Robb Thaler <erica.thaler@uphs.upenn.edu>, Shawn T Flaherty <pgh.shawn@yahoo.com>, George Church <gchurch@genetics.med.harvard.edu>, Tom Hess <yogitom@comcast.net>, Joichi Ito <Joiito@gmail.com>, Janie MacLeod <jkbmacleod@icloud.com>, John Kidder <jkidder@vtc.edu>, "Koehler, Peter F" <koehler@pitt.edu>, Lydia Pintscher <lydia.pintscher@wikimedia.de>


On Wed, Sep 16, 2026 at 1:18 PM Scott MacLeod <sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org> wrote:

Dear Nick and Sandra, All, 
& 

Greetings from free-to-students' World Univ & Sch building on MIT OCW in 7 languages and in a #GrowWithGoogleWUaS program, for free online WUaS degrees, in each of all 200 countries and in their main languages, and which is wiki too to Five Branches University. And very nice to talk with you just now Sandra at Five Branches University Graduate School of Traditional Chinese Medicine in Santa Cruz. 

Networking here, and as free World Univ & Sch grows, and seeks to accredit, to offer online free WUaS degrees - Bachelor, PhD, Law, MD, IB high school / similar, AA / AS and Master's degrees.

On World Univ & Sch's wiki side, here's the beginning wiki Chinese Medicine subject at WUaS, for people to people wiki teaching and wiki learning - 



To give you an idea of how WUaS wiki works, I just searched on 

'scientific papers on traditional chinese medicine and the molecules in chinese medicines nih'

found: 


Modern research investigates Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) through the lens of molecular biology, mass spectrometry, and network pharmacology, with thousands of peer-reviewed studies hosted in the PubMed Central (PMC) NIH database.
Core Research Areas on Molecules in TCM
  • Component Analysis & Identification: Advanced tools like liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry (LC-MS) map diverse active molecules in herbs, including terpenes, flavonoids, steroids, and phenylpropanoids. [1, 2]
  • Network Pharmacology: Researchers map complex herb formulas to human biological targets using computational molecular docking, showing how multi-ingredient remedies influence pathways like PI3K/Akt/mTOR or MAPK/NF-κB. [1, 2]
  • Biomacromolecules: Studies explore how active fractions—such as polysaccharides, proteins, and nucleic acids—modulate immune responses, gut microbiota, and cellular signaling. [1, 2]
Key NIH/PMC Open-Access Review Papers
Unveiling secrets of traditional Chinese medicine: Cutting-edge techniques in component analysis – Covers artificial intelligence, imaging mass spectrometry, and structural annotation of herbal compounds.
Are you looking for studies on a specific herb (like Artemisia annua or ginseng) or a particular disease/condition?

referencing -

The scientific basis of synergy in traditional Chinese medicine: physicochemical, pharmacokinetic, and pharmacodynamic perspectives -


Unraveling the Molecular Mechanism of Traditional Chinese Medicine: Formulas Against Acute Airway Viral Infections as Examples


Pharmacodynamic material basis of traditional Chinese medicine based on biomacromolecules: a review



Will add to https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Chinese_Medicine - and I invite your students to wiki-teach and wiki-learn to this, perhaps as great learning projects. Brainstorming, how might World University and School explore the molecules in Chinese herbal medicines further for pharmaceutical production even & in a #RealisticVirtualEarth (and see - https://www.toolify.ai/ai-news/revolutionizing-education-with-machine-learning-and-ai-2574306) #RealisticVirtualEarthFor, a #RVEforPharmacology #RVEforMolecules, a #RVEforChineseMedicine (on #TwitterX and #Linkedin)?


Best regards, more later, thanks, 
Scott
Scott GK MacLeod 
 


PS 
My notes, and from what Sandra described to me  - 

Nick Hancock 
from 


Bridge Program FAQ
Five Branches University
Nick Hancock
https://youtu.be/WGCRSI3D6Zk

Nick Hancock, Bridge Program Director, goes over some commonly asked questions about our Bridge Program, a 100% online program for licensed acupuncturists with a Master's Degree to earn their Doctor Title.


Chief Medical Officer at World University and School 


Scott Gordon MacLeod <president@worlduniversityandschool.org>



PPS
And regarding World University and School in a #GrowWithGoogleWUaS program,

Great #AIdevelopments #AlphaFold,  #AlphaMissense with #AlphaGenome -& #AgingReversal & #ExtremeLongevity #GeneticDrugTherapies ? (in #RealisticVirtualEarthForGenetics, & think #GStreetView w #GTimeSlider #GCellView #GMoleculeView even?) -  https://share.google/aimode/2WAJ4EaQye5akhyMX - #WUaSpharma ? 

 



Great #AIdevelopments #AlphaFold,  #AlphaMissense with #AlphaGenomeAtlas -& #AgingReversal & #ExtremeLongevity #GeneticDrugTherapies ? (in #RealisticVirtualEarthForGenetics, & think #GStreetView w #GTimeSlider #GCellView #GMoleculeView?) -  https://share.google/aimode/2WAJ4EaQye5akhyMX - #WUaSpharma ~


Retweeting ~ 

Today we have set out how we’re building AI to accelerate science and improve people’s lives. Just some examples in the last week or so:

- Mapped all 9B possible single letter genetic changes across the human genome with AlphaGenome Atlas and made it openly available to researchers.
- Billions of decisions depend on weather predictions so we introduced WeatherNext 3, our most accurate and capable global weather AI model to date.
- We published AI & Economy ATLAS, a comprehensive open-access look at how people are using AI globally.
- AI has enabled extraordinary advances in language translation. Today our services are available in nearly 300 languages, spoken by 7B people

We’re focusing our efforts on four key areas: health, natural disaster and weather resilience, learning, and economic opportunity. blog.google/innovation-and… 





AlphaFold and AlphaMissense with AlphaGenome Atlas





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Society, Information Technology, and the Global University, (forthcoming, Academic Press at World University and School, 2026) 

Scottish Small Piping album #2 - Honey Piobaireachd (2022)
- Poetry! Order Book #5 Light, Float, Sit, Watsu ~ Virtually (2021, Academic Press at WUaS)

Scottish Small Piping album #1 Honey in the Bag ~ Out of the Air tune (2020)


Order Book #3 Winding Road Rainbow: Harbin, Wandering & the Poetry of Loving Bliss (2018,  Academic Press at WUaS)

Order Book #2 Haiku-ish and Other Loving Hippie Harbin Poetry (2017,  Academic Press at WUaS) 

Order Actual-Virtual Ethnographic Book #1: Naked Harbin Ethnography (2016, Academic Press at World University and School)



- Scott GK MacLeod  
Founder, President, CEO & Professor
at / of best STEAM CC licensed OCW, Wiki,
World University & School (WUaS)  
- USPS US Post Office, PO Box 132, General Delivery, Canyon, CA 94516

1) non-profit 501(c)(3) Public Charity
building on CC-4 licensed MIT OCW in 7 languages - 


2) for profit general stock company WUaS Corporation in CA - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html
- wuas_ceo@worlduniversityandschool.org


https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States (planning ~200 countries' WUaS world class universities in their main languages, per the Olympics, for free-to-students' WUaS degrees from home)

https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Languages (planning to be in all 7159 living languages, each as or with wiki schools for open people-to-people wiki-teaching and wiki-learning, e.g. from here - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Subjects)








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Friends Meeting at Cambridge Guest Room Information 


Amy Mercure

AttachmentsSep 15, 2026, 9:32 AM (1 day ago)
to me

Hi, Scott.

Thank you for reaching out.
Please find attached the guidelines for the guestroom.
If you agree with them, please email to let me know that and also what dates you are looking to stay here so I can check availability for you.
Please don't hesitate if you have any questions.
Cheerfully,
Amy 



* 

Dear Amy (Mercure) at Friends' Meeting at Cambridge, 

Thank you for your call back just now, and your email. I agree with the FMC Guest Room guidelines, and thanks for the information that the room costs $110 / night.

Would the FMC Guest Room please be available the nights of  

W 9/30/26
Th 10/1 
F 10/2 
Sat 10/3 ?

I'll book my flights after hearing from you. 

I've registered for and am attending the Harvard aging research and drug discovery conference 10/1-10/3 at the Harvard Tree house in Allston  (per https://x.com/geochurch/status/2084958479148523537), and regarding World University and School's developing realistic virtual earth for genetics, and aging reversal (and our free open wiki Aging_Reversal_Genetics' subject - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Aging_Reversal_Genetics, not yet in other countries' languages).

Regarding the 2nd MIT conference I mentioned in my email yesterday (below), I'm going to attend the MIT Open Learning and Wikipedia event online on 10/6/26 in a change of plans.

Thanks very much, and I look forward to hearing from you again soon. (Do you know if John Bach, the Harvard Quaker Chaplain - https://chaplains.harvard.edu/people/john-bach -  attends FMC Meeting on Sundays regularly, by any chance? I'd like to meet him if possible).

Friendly regards, 
Scott 
Scott GK MacLeod 




On Mon, Sep 14, 2026 at 11:34 AM Scott MacLeod <sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org> wrote:

Dear Amy (Mercure) or Friends' Meeting at Cambridge Office Manager, 

Friendly greetings. I'm writing to inquire if your Guest Room might be available please from around Wednesday September 30 to around October 7, 2026. I'm attending 2 Harvard & MIT conferences during this time, and am traveling from the SF Bay Area for these. (I became a member of the RSOF in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 2004, and have been active in about 15 unprogrammed Meetings since the mid-1970s). If so, how much might such a room cost please?

Thank you, 
Scott 
Scott GK MacLeod



And here's the Quakers RSOF beginning wiki school for people to people wiki-teaching and wiki-learning at Friendly-informed World University and School, building on CC-4 licensed MIT OCW in 7 languages for free-to-students' degrees (of which I'm the presiding clerk and recording clerk) - 





PS
my notes - 

Guest Room
Our Guest Room is open for rental at a modest rate. Kindly inquire with our Office Manager at 617-876-6883 or office@fmcquaker.org.


Cambridge Friends' Meeting
5 Longfellow Park, Cambridge, MA 02138 USA 

(617) 876-6883

office@fmcquaker.org





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W Sep 16, 2026


Dear Amy (Mercure) at Friends' Meeting at Cambridge, Harvard Quaker Chaplain John Bach, Harvard and MIT professor of genetics' George Church.

Greetings further! 

Thanks so much for your call today again, Amy, and glad you found my emails (below). Looking forward to staying Friends' Meeting at Cambridge from W 9/30 - to Sunday morning 10/4/26 while attending in person the Harvard aging research and drug discovery conference 10/1-10/3 at the Harvard Treehouse in Allston  (per https://x.com/geochurch/status/2084958479148523537), and re eg https://agingpharma.org/program2026#virtual-cell-in-time. (Glad to see the words' 'age reversal' 3 times here - https://ogephd.hms.harvard.edu/people/vadim-gladyshev - in Vadim's Harvard web page, and who is a first presenter in this https://agingpharma.org/ on Thursday 10/1 morning).

Thanks too, Amy, for saying you'd reach out to John Bach, and re Friendly-informed World University and School, (also in a #GrowWithGoogleWUaS program), and potentially re Quaker Meeting on Sunday morning at FMC, as well as connecting with Harvard & Quaker geneticists, biology, & science & social science and humanities' professors and other academics potentially regarding World University and School's ~41 majors - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/ - but after we become accredited. 

Hoping I can find a flight back to the SF Bay Area that would allow me to attend Quaker Meeting too on Sunday morning. 

All the best, Friendly regards, thanks, 

Scott 
Scott GK MacLeod



PS
From the M 9/14/26 WUaS Weekly Business Meeting, loosely conducted in the manner of Friends/ Quakers -

Tushar Mountains, UT: M 9/14/26 recording of @WorldUnivAndSch @WUaSPress #WUaSNewsAndQA #WUaSWBM #UgandaWUaS #WUaSMedSchs * (was - M 9/14/26 & M 9/21/26 open best STEAM Creative Commons' licensed OpenCourseWare wiki World Univ & Sch WUaS News and Q&A, with Zoom URL)
 




PPS

And regarding World University and School in a #GrowWithGoogleWUaS program, and AI and ML - 

Great #AIdevelopments #AlphaFold,  #AlphaMissense with #AlphaGenome -& #AgingReversal & #ExtremeLongevity #GeneticDrugTherapies ? (in #RealisticVirtualEarthForGenetics, & think #GStreetView w #GTimeSlider #GCellView #GMoleculeView even?) -  https://share.google/aimode/2WAJ4EaQye5akhyMX - #WUaSpharma ? 
 



Great #AIdevelopments #AlphaFold,  #AlphaMissense with #AlphaGenomeAtlas -& #AgingReversal & #ExtremeLongevity #GeneticDrugTherapies ? (in #RealisticVirtualEarthForGenetics, & think #GStreetView w #GTimeSlider #GCellView #GMoleculeView?) -  https://share.google/aimode/2WAJ4EaQye5akhyMX - #WUaSpharma ~



Retweeting ~ 

Today we have set out how we’re building AI to accelerate science and improve people’s lives. Just some examples in the last week or so:

- Mapped all 9B possible single letter genetic changes across the human genome with AlphaGenome Atlas and made it openly available to researchers.
- Billions of decisions depend on weather predictions so we introduced WeatherNext 3, our most accurate and capable global weather AI model to date.
- We published AI & Economy ATLAS, a comprehensive open-access look at how people are using AI globally.
- AI has enabled extraordinary advances in language translation. Today our services are available in nearly 300 languages, spoken by 7B people

We’re focusing our efforts on four key areas: health, natural disaster and weather resilience, learning, and economic opportunity. blog.google/innovation-and… 





AlphaFold and AlphaMissense with AlphaGenome Atlas





* * * 



Mapping 9B (9 billion) possible single letter genetic changes across the human genome with AlphaGenome Atlas and made it openly available to researchers


Great #AIdevelopments #AlphaFold,  #AlphaMissense with #AlphaGenome -& #AgingReversal & #ExtremeLongevity #GeneticDrugTherapies ? (in #RealisticVirtualEarthForGenetics, & think #GStreetView w #GTimeSlider #GCellView #GMoleculeView even?) -  https://share.google/aimode/2WAJ4EaQye5akhyMX - #WUaSpharma ? 

 



Great #AIdevelopments #AlphaFold,  #AlphaMissense with #AlphaGenomeAtlas -& #AgingReversal & #ExtremeLongevity #GeneticDrugTherapies ? (in #RealisticVirtualEarthForGenetics, & think #GStreetView w #GTimeSlider #GCellView #GMoleculeView?) -  https://share.google/aimode/2WAJ4EaQye5akhyMX - #WUaSpharma ~



Retweeting ~ 

Today we have set out how we’re building AI to accelerate science and improve people’s lives. Just some examples in the last week or so:

- Mapped all 9B possible single letter genetic changes across the human genome with AlphaGenome Atlas and made it openly available to researchers.
- Billions of decisions depend on weather predictions so we introduced WeatherNext 3, our most accurate and capable global weather AI model to date.
- We published AI & Economy ATLAS, a comprehensive open-access look at how people are using AI globally.
- AI has enabled extraordinary advances in language translation. Today our services are available in nearly 300 languages, spoken by 7B people

We’re focusing our efforts on four key areas: health, natural disaster and weather resilience, learning, and economic opportunity. blog.google/innovation-and… 





AlphaFold and AlphaMissense with AlphaGenome Atlas



Building AI to accelerate science and improve lives

Sep 15, 2026

11 min read

We’re asking what’s possible for health, natural disaster and weather resilience, learning, and economic opportunity.

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Today, we reached a significant milestone that stands as a testament to decades of AI research and advancement: Google technologies now support more than 300 languages, spoken by 7 billion people — representing 86% of the global population. To help us understand how these tools are driving real-world opportunity, we also released new interactive insights today with our AI & Economy ATLAS, the most comprehensive look at how real people are using AI globally. This comes on top of a raft of key AI advances in science to benefit people over just the past few weeks:

  • We mapped the predicted impact of all 9 billion possible single letter genetic changes across the human genome with AlphaGenome Atlas and made it openly available to researchers.
  • We introduced WeatherNext 3, our most advanced and accurate global weather model, delivering 50% more accurate precipitation forecasts a day or more ahead — and it’s already in use in our products.
  • We brought together data on global health, food security, and socioeconomics into a single Planetary Prediction Engine to forecast planetary crises — this has already been used in the ongoing Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and in the U.S. in identifying vulnerable communities across 21 CDC health indicators.
  • We scaled AI research to help cut the climate impact of aviation — this is already being applied in the U.K. (in collaboration with the government) and in Asia.

What ties all of this work together? It is the belief that advances in AI can accelerate scientific progress in ways that will directly improve people’s lives today and in the future. This is a key element of what motivates our work in AI. We’re focusing our work in key areas that matter most: making disease detectable, treatable, and preventable, predicting natural disasters, expanding learning, and unlocking economic opportunities for more people.

While the possibilities are exciting, the benefits of AI are not guaranteed. Making them real — and mitigating their challenges and risks — demands that society works together. Though there is more still to do, AI’s progress is already making it possible for us to aspire to do bold and ambitious things that can benefit people, and to ask and address questions that were once considered impossible to solve.

Text: What if we could predict, treat, and prevent diseases before they take a toll?

We’re making progress in using AI to improve disease detection and diagnosis, and to better understand health conditions:

  • Deepening scientific discovery: In 2024, Demis Hassabis and John Jumper were co-awarded a Nobel Prize for their work on AlphaFold, which has predicted all 200 million protein structures known to science, providing a new basis for understanding and researching diseases. It is now used by 4 million researchers in 190 countries in areas from drug discovery to understanding neglected diseases like Chagas disease and leishmaniasis. AlphaMissense is helping researchers identify disease-causing genetic mutations. And now, we’re building on AlphaFold and AlphaMissense with AlphaGenome Atlas, offering scientists predictive insights into how genetic variations alter cellular behavior.
  • Earlier detection: Our recent breast cancer study with Imperial College London and the U.K.’s NHS showed AI can detect 25% of interval cancers previously missed in mammograms of 175,000 women. At the same time, we’re making meaningful progress in tools to help detect lung cancer, colorectal cancer, and genetic mutations in tumor cells.
  • Global screenings: For tuberculosis — where ~40% of infected people worldwide go undiagnosed — our chest X-ray (used by Nexus Intelligence) has screened over 25,000 x-rays across 40 locations in six nations. We are also using bioacoustic models to detect TB via coughs using Health Acoustic Representations. Meanwhile, our diabetic retinopathy model, developed with partners, has supported more than 1.15 million screenings globally, with plans to expand to 6 million over the next decade to help detect a treatable but growing cause of preventable blindness.
  • Expanding access: We’re pioneering the use of everyday smart phones and wearables for early detection of cardiovascular disease, insulin resistance, hypertension, loss of pulse, and passive heart rate monitoring. We’re working with leaders in Arkansas to help develop a blueprint for improving health outcomes in rural areas.
  • Tools for scientists and health practitioners: Collaborative AI tools like Co-Scientist are helping researchers accelerate and expand core steps of the scientific method, like generating and validating novel hypotheses (such as identifying new therapeutic applications for existing drugs for acute myeloid leukemia). We have also open-sourced AI tools like DeepConsensus, DeepVariant, and DeepPolisher. Over the last decade, these tools have assisted in understanding the human genome, drafting the first pangenome, and enabling ongoing work as part of the Human Pangenome Reference Consortium, better representing human genetic diversity and allowing experts to more accurately diagnose and treat diseases. Through AMIE (Articulate Medical Intelligence Explorer), we are advancing toward longitudinal disease management, building prospective evidence in real-world settings, collaborating with academic and medical institutions (e.g., Beth Israel Deaconess Center), and conducting a first-of-its-kind nationwide trial in real-world care settings. AMIE assists those providing care on the frontlines — freeing up doctors to spend more time with their patients.
Text: What if people and communities were never caught off guard by natural disasters?

To protect people’s safety and livelihoods, we need accurate predictions of natural disasters and weather. To make accurate predictions, we must understand the physical earth. Here’s how our technical and scientific progress is already making a difference in crisis prediction and detection:

  • Extreme weather and earthquakes: Last year, authorities in Jamaica used WeatherNext to accurately predict Hurricane Melissa’s path, securing early disaster funding and enabling life-saving emergency preparations long before the storm made landfall. Just a few months ago, our Earthquake Alert system alerted millions of people in Venezuela ahead of an earthquake. And we’re making progress in other areas, including cyclones and extreme heat.
  • Monsoons and floods: The scale of this work is encouraging. In 2025, our monsoon predictions provided information for 38 million farmers in India. And in just a few years, our forecasts on Flood Hub — now including both riverine floods and flash floods — have grown to cover 2 billion people across more than 150 countries in areas at risk for significant flood events.
  • Wildfires: Our AI tools have helped predict wildfire boundaries in the U.S. and 33 other countries. We’re also working with partners toward a FireSat constellation of satellites to detect wildfires previously too small to detect anywhere on earth. In 2025, we generated more than 520 crisis alerts on Google Search that provided timely wildfire information to over 75 million users around the world.
  • Next-gen prediction: With WeatherNext 3, we’re combining real-time satellite observations with AI, delivering high-resolution, hourly forecasts without immense supercomputing power — a major step forward for data-sparse regions that have been long underserved by high-resolution forecasting.
  • Planetary crisis mapping: We recently introduced the Earth AI Planetary Prediction Engine (PPE), an autonomous AI system that uses simple language instructions to almost instantly predict global crises like disease outbreaks, food shortages, and climate risks, helping humanitarian responders act faster during emergencies. In the ongoing Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, PPE successfully pinpointed 83% of emerging hotspots ahead of time, beating current forecasting systems. In Nigeria, PPE doubled food security forecasting accuracy at the local district level. And in the U.S., PPE outperformed traditional models in identifying vulnerable communities across 21 CDC health indicators. We’re continuing to expand prediction horizons to make these tools even more useful.
Text: What if we could unlock human potential for people everywhere?

Learning is the bedrock of economic and societal progress. The world has made huge strides in education: 90% of primary school-aged children globally are enrolled in school, and approximately 87% complete their primary education. But 2022 research showed uneven access to education, differences in education quality, and limited content availability across languages, among other issues. Global learning outcomes have declined over the last two decades across 81 countries.

AI offers a profound opportunity to expand access to knowledge and support learners and educators alike:

  • For learners: AI can enable personalized learning, remove language barriers, and make complex subjects more accessible through tools like Guided Learning. It can also expand access and support for learners and teachers, for example with free access to student tools in multiple countries.
  • For educators: AI can help with research, preparation, and administrative tasks, freeing up time to spend with students.

Tackling challenges and focusing on responsible design: AI presents real challenges for learning, including questions on accuracy, safety, critical thinking, cheating, and learning loss. That’s why we have partnered with ISTE+ASCD to provide AI literacy training to all 6 million educators in the U.S., while conducting ongoing and rigorous research to ensure we design our educational tools with teachers in the lead, and AI as the assistant. We still have much to work through together.

Text: What if workers, entrepreneurs, and small businesses had tools to realize their most ambitious ideas?

Across the economy, AI can drive innovation and productivity for workers, businesses, and organizations across sectors. Its true value isn’t in what it does on its own, but in how people choose to use it and what they build with it:

  • For small businesses: AI can help deliver new products, services, and economic growth. Small businesses are scaling custom marketing campaigns with Pomelli and bringing together complex regional sales data from different product lines with the Gemini Enterprise App.
  • The future of work: The economic benefits of AI are neither automatic nor guaranteed. Like other new technologies, we expect AI to reshape work in three major ways: Some jobs are likely to decline, some jobs will grow, and many more jobs will change as AI increasingly assists workers. To understand these shifts, we’ve launched the AI & Economy ATLAS, which provides empirical insights on how people are using AI tools at work and in their daily lives, and translated the data into an interactive, open-access experience.
  • Skilling: Training and skill building must be accessible to all regardless of a person's geography, language, or access to capital. To date, Google has provided more than $1 billion globally in training and skilling initiatives, helping over 100 million people gain essential digital and AI skills, from electricians and other skilled tradespeople, to rural healthcare workers, to manufacturing workers. More tailored worker assistance and transition support will likely be needed.
Text: What if the information and benefits of these areas were universally accessible and useful?

Grounded in our company’s founding mission, we are making important strides in breaking down languages and accessibility barriers with products, research, and models that understand the world’s languages exactly as they are expressed:

  • Language tools: AI and machine learning have been part of Google Translate since its launch in 2006. Since then, advances in AI have helped us expand our technologies and products to support nearly 300 languages, spoken by 7 billion people — representing 86% of the world’s population, and helping more than 1 billion people translate around 1 trillion words each month. Our goal is to support the world’s 1,000 most-spoken languages.
  • Inclusive speech technology: Access is broader than translation alone. For example, automatic speech recognition uses AI to understand spoken words and convert them into text. To help build inclusive speech technology, we partnered with Makerere University, University of Ghana, and Digital Umuganda to create an open dataset for 27 African languages spoken by over 100 million people. One language alone may have 100 dialects, each with its own nuance, which is why we’ve also partnered with IISC-Banglore and ARTPARK on Project Vaani to open-source speech and image datasets for 109 Indic languages.
  • Accessibility: Beyond spoken languages, we've been making our tools more accessible for people with disabilities, including with our recent sign-language-to-text (SL2T) model for sign-to-text dictation.
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Bold and responsible, together

We believe that such bold ambitions for the societal benefits of AI must always be accompanied by an equal commitment to responsibility. This is the basis of our bold and responsible approach to AI. Beyond our ongoing work to address the immediate and future risks of AI (detailed in our annual updates), the application of AI and science presents distinct challenges: On the one hand, we need the right detection, reporting, and mitigation tools in place to address risks around chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear (CBRN) mis-use. At the same time, it is important to avoid the risk of missed use — that is, not applying AI in places and communities where it would provide benefit and, in some cases, worsening existing societal challenges and gaps.

We believe advancing scientific discovery and bringing those benefits to communities requires that we collaborate deeply with many other researchers and scientists working to tackle similar issues, including academia, national laboratories, philanthropic foundations, non-governmental organizations, governments, other companies, and local partners. The examples of advances cited above have benefited from such research collaborations and our own Google.org grant-making to accelerate scientific discovery and to address society’s greatest challenges. That’s why as part of our longstanding commitment to supporting science and discovery in academia, Google has given more than $1 billion across 1,700+ research institutions worldwide since 2006.

As Nobel laureate Joel Mokyr noted, new technology drives scientific advances, which in turn drive new technologies, creating "a positive feedback loop that can keep growing with no end in sight.” And it does so in ways that have improved people’s wellbeing and propelled societal progress. AI is the most powerful engine for that loop we have ever built — and we’re just getting started.

Read more about how we’re using AI to help people, improve lives, and benefit society at our website.

About the author

James Manyika

James Manyika

SVP, Research, Labs, Technology & Society

    As Google’s SVP of Research, Technology & Society, James oversees Google Research and leads efforts across Google and Alphabet to responsibly shape and advance our most ambitious innovations to benefit people and society.

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