Inaugural Recipients of the Google Trust & Safety Research Award

Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick and Stefan Savage will use LLMs to understand digital fraudster behavior by experimenting with chatbots as honeypots. They are inaugural recipients of the Google Trust & Safety Research Awards, working to create a positive societal impact with technology.

In August, Google invited researchers studying the societal impact of technology to apply for the Trust & Safety Research Awards. These awards provide grants of up to $100,000 each to support research efforts across disciplines and areas of interest related to Trust & Safety in technology. Google announced the awardees and their proposals, which will study and propose solutions to some of the most pressing questions in tech policy — from advocating for child and teen safety, to combating misinformation. Solving complex problems requires bringing together diverse minds and resources collaboratively, and Google looks forward to the progress these researchers will make in the year ahead in contributing research that will be valuable to the wider ecosystem.

Story Written By Amanda Storey
Senior Director, Trust and Safety, Google EMEA