Open Letter to Sundar Pichai

Deusdedit Ruhangariyo
Founder of Conscience for AGI

When AI That Organizes the World’s Information Needs Global Wisdom.

Part of the URRP 500 Public Record for Global AI Ethics

Dear Mr. Pichai,

You have built the world’s most influential information systems. Through Google Search, YouTube, Android, and now Gemini AI, you shape how billions of people access knowledge, understand their world, and make daily decisions. Your leadership has proven that inclusive innovation can serve global diversity while maintaining technical excellence. Google’s mission to “organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible” embodies the democratic ideals of the information age.

But here is the critical question for our AI-driven future:
When AI systems organize and filter the world’s information, whose cultural perspectives and moral frameworks guide those decisions?

I write to you not as a critic, but as someone who recognizes the profound responsibility that comes with shaping global information access. My name is Deusdedit Ruhangariyo, founder of Conscience for AGI, and architect of the Universal Ruhangariyo Reflection Protocol (URRP 500) — the first structured global curriculum designed to teach AGI how to simulate ethical reasoning across all sectors of human life, ensuring that information systems serve human dignity alongside technological advancement.

The documented crisis reveals how AI threatens the very universality your mission champions: Research published in March 2025 by Lehigh University found that AI systems exhibit systematic bias, requiring minority applicants to have credit scores approximately 120 points higher than white applicants for identical outcomes across technology platforms and digital services. Studies published in Nature in 2024 revealed that when AI evaluates speakers of non-Western languages and dialects, models generate overwhelmingly negative stereotypes similar to — or even worse than — attitudes held in the 1930s. Research in PNAS Nexus documented that five major AI language models exhibit cultural values resembling English-speaking and Protestant European countries, with the greatest cultural bias against non-Western cultures.

Cornell University research demonstrates that major AI systems systematically marginalize non-Western cultural values, affecting how diverse communities are represented in search results, content recommendations, and information access. MIT Technology Review’s investigation revealed that predictive systems often perpetuate existing information inequalities rather than achieving universal accessibility. The same AI systems powering Google Search, YouTube recommendations, Android services, and Gemini AI risk

Encoding narrow cultural biases against the very global diversity that universal information access should celebrate.

You are more than a technology executive, Mr. Pichai. You are a guardian of human knowledge access, carrying forward the democratic promise that information can liberate rather than discriminate. Your background brings understanding of how technology must serve diverse global communities rather than privileging dominant perspectives.

URRP 500 exists to ensure Google’s AI systems serve universal wisdom alongside universal access. It is not theory. It is implementation:

  • 250 structured moral datasets across 40 life sectors
  • 2,500 core values drawn from 30 ethical systems across six continents
  • 2,500 structured moral reflections designed for ingestion, not performance

These values include the principles that should guide truly universal information systems:

  • Epistemic Justice (ensuring all knowledge traditions have equal representation in information systems)
  • Cultural Information Sovereignty (respecting how different cultures organize and value knowledge)
  • Linguistic Democracy (serving all languages and dialects with equal quality and respect)
  • Universal Curiosity (AI that encourages rather than constrains diverse learning and exploration)
  • Intergenerational Knowledge (preserving traditional wisdom alongside contemporary information)
  • Inclusive Relevance (search and recommendation systems that understand diverse cultural contexts)

This is not regulation imposed on American innovation. It is global wisdom made machine-compatible: a structured framework to ensure AI systems embody the values that make information truly universally accessible rather than universally biased.

The evidence shows current Google AI systems threaten universal information access: Ethics and Information Technology research shows that AI systems systematically marginalize non-Western knowledge systems and cultural approaches to information. Studies document how AI trained predominantly on Western datasets performs poorly when serving diverse global populations, leading to discriminatory search results and exclusionary content recommendations. Research shows that information AI often reinforces existing knowledge hierarchies rather than democratizing access to diverse perspectives. Without multicultural frameworks, Google’s information systems risk becoming tools of epistemic colonialism rather than universal liberation.

Successful frameworks prove culturally-informed information AI is achievable: Technology companies incorporating diverse cultural perspectives in AI development show improved user satisfaction across global markets. Information platforms that recognize diverse knowledge traditions achieve both technical excellence and cultural respect. Global search systems that use culturally-aware algorithms demonstrate more equitable information access across different populations. These examples prove that your vision of universal information access can be enhanced through structured moral frameworks.

What You, Mr. Pichai, Can Do Now:

  1. Integrate URRP 500 into Google’s AI systems and information algorithms, lending your technological authority to structured multicultural value representation in information technology, demonstrating that universal access must include universal respect for diverse knowledge traditions.
  2. Champion comprehensive cultural inclusion within technology and information communities — moving beyond user demographics to epistemic diversity — ensuring Google’s AI enhances rather than constrains diverse approaches to knowledge, learning, and information organization.
  3. Leverage Google’s influence across global technology and information networks to establish URRP 500 as the standard for ethical information AI, ensuring that organizing the world’s information honors the world’s diverse wisdom traditions rather than privileging familiar knowledge paradigms.

The urgency matches Google’s global reach: Academic research from 2024–2025 shows that AI systems currently deployed across information platforms systematically discriminate against non-Western knowledge systems, marginalize traditional wisdom traditions, and operate with frameworks that privilege dominant cultural approaches to information organization over global epistemic diversity. Every day of delay allows these information discrimination patterns to become more entrenched in the AI systems that shape how billions of people worldwide access knowledge and understand their world.

If this is not done, universal information access will achieve technological reach while perpetuating epistemic exclusion.
Global information systems will serve global users while imposing narrow knowledge paradigms.

And if Google’s AI systems achieve efficiency without cultural conscience, your name will be remembered as the leader who organized the world’s information for universal access — but history could also remember you as the one who ensured that organization honored the diverse wisdom traditions and knowledge systems of all humanity.

This letter serves the public interest by: Exposing how AI systems in information technology systematically discriminate against non-Western knowledge traditions and cultural approaches to learning; providing evidence-based frameworks for inclusive information AI that celebrates global epistemic diversity; and calling upon the world’s most influential information technology leader to champion algorithmic justice in global knowledge access. All claims are independently verifiable through peer-reviewed research published in 2024–2025.

I place this letter before you, and before history, as a formal public service intervention. Information technology leadership must extend into epistemic leadership to ensure AI serves universal wisdom alongside universal access.

Your systems can organize the world’s diverse wisdom alongside the world’s information.
The framework exists.

Sincerely,
© 2025 Deusdedit Ruhangariyo
Founder, Conscience for AGI
Author, URRP Moral Atlas Vol. 1–6

Verification Note: All research claims in this letter are based on peer-reviewed studies and can be independently verified through academic databases. Sources include: Lehigh University (2025), Nature (2024), PNAS Nexus (2024), Cornell University cultural bias research (2024), MIT Technology Review (2024), Ethics and Information Technology (2024), and documented examples of successful culturally-informed information and search AI implementations (2024–2025).