Google launches Thai AI project to screen for diabetic eye disease

BANGKOK (Reuters) - Google said on Thursday it had launched an artificial intelligence program in Thailand to screen for a diabetic eye disease which causes permanent blindness.

The eye screening program in Thailand follows a similar Google program in India and highlights a push by big tech companies to show the social benefits of new AI technologies.

"As a society, we have a responsibility to use AI in the best possible way," Kent Walker, the company's Senior Vice President for Global Affairs, said in speech at a Google event in Bangkok on Thursday.

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In October, Google said it would grant about $25 million globally next year to humanitarian and environmental projects seeking to use AI for good.

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