Google is launching a new advisory council of eight researchers and experts to provide outside input as it develops artificial intelligence for a range of applications, including facial recognition.

The Advanced Technology External Advisory Council (ATEAC), which is slated to publish a report at the end of 2019, will consider some of Google's complex challenges that arise under our AI Principles, like facial recognition and fairness in machine learning, providing diverse perspectives to inform Google's work.

Google already has its own internal AI principles, which, among other provisions, bars the California-based tech firm from using AI to develop weapons.

The eight-member Advanced Technology External Advisory Council includes Joanna Bryson, an associate professor in computing at the University of Bath; William J. Burns, a former U.S. deputy secretary of state, and Dyan Gibbens, chief executive of Houston-based drone startup Trumbull.