Google Shifts AI Safety Unit Out Of DeepMind Lab To Global Affairs

By PYMNTS
Publication Date: 2026-08-26 23:43:00

Google is moving its “AI responsibility” unit out of Google DeepMind and into Google’s global affairs organization, the Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday (Aug. 26), citing an internal email.

The AI responsibility unit includes 90 people and has teams focused on the chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear risks of Google’s AI models; the ways people interact with AI; and the psychological impacts of chatbots, according to the report.

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The organization the unit is moving away from, Google DeepMind, is the company’s research lab developing frontier AI models, while the one it is joining, global affairs, oversees lobbying and public policy, per the report.

The move is part of Google’s effort to shift Google DeepMind from being the semiautonomous unit it has been since Google…

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