Alphabet chiefs pledge to scour more content as elections loom

'It's fair to be worried about AI,' Pichai said. 'I don't think any single company should control it.'

The chief executive officers of Alphabet’s Google and YouTube pledged to scour videos and other content more closely for misleading news and inappropriate messages on their web services ahead of elections in the US later this year.
 
"We have more elections coming, so we’re all working harder," Google CEO Sundar Pichai said during an interview at an event in San Francisco on Friday hosted by MSNBC and Recode. "We feel a huge sense of responsibility."
 
Later this year, midterm elections will determine which party runs Congress, now controlled by Republicans.
 
YouTube chief Susan Wojcicki said the online