June 11, 2026 Responsibility & Safety

Scaling AI Safety Research for a Multi-Agent World

For the past decade, we’ve focused on making individual AI models more capable, helpful and safe. Today, Google DeepMind — together with Schmidt Sciences , the Cooperative AI Foundation , the Advanced Research and Invention Agency , and supported by Google.org — is announcing a new technical research funding call of up to $10M for researchers worldwide.

As AI technology scales, we’re entering a new era. Soon, millions of AI agents — built by different organizations — will interact across digital environments, communicating, negotiating and transacting with one another.

When these systems interact, they must do so safely and predictably.…