Google has quietly updated the webpage for its Responsible AI and Human Centered Technology (RAI-HCT) team, the team charged with conducting research into AI safety, fairness, and explainability, to scrub mentions of diversity and equity.A previous version of the page used language such as marginalized communities, diverse, underrepresented groups, and equity to describe the RAI-HCT teams work. That language has been removed, or in some cases replaced with less specific wording (e.g. all, varied, and numerous rather than diverse) Google didnt immediately respond to a request for comment. The changes, which were spotted by watchdog group The Midas Project, come after Google deleted similar language from its Startups Founders Fundgrant website. The company said in early February that it would eliminate its diversity hiring targets and review its diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs.Google is among the many big tech companiesthat have rolled back DEI initiatives as the Trump Administration targets what it characterizes as an illegal practice.Amazon andMetahave walked back DEI measures over the past few months, and OpenAIrecently removed mentions of diversity and inclusion from a webpage on its hiring practices. Apple, however, recently pushed back against a shareholder proposal to end its DEI programs.Many of these companies, including Google, have contracts with federal agencies.