Lanny Smith launched Actively Black in the wake of George Floyd’s 2020 murder, when he felt big companies’ statements on racism and social justice rang hollow.
“You don’t want to put a system out that either says wrong things or sometimes says toxic things,” Alphabet Chairman John Hennessy said at a conference Monday
The escalation in urgency comes as the company ups its rivalry with Microsoft-backed OpenAI, whose ChatGPT chatbot took the internet by storm.