Google retracts promise not to use AI for weapons or surveillance — prompting employee backlash: ‘Are we the baddies?’
The company’s historical reluctance to engage in military AI projects stems from employee-led protests in 2018, when workers successfully pressured Google to abandon a Pentagon contract known as “Project Maven,” which aimed to enhance drone surveillance capabilities using AI.
Google drops 7-year promise not to make AI for weapons
Google, the company once known for including “Don’t be evil” in its code of conduct, just changed its corporate rules to allow the development of artificial intelligence for weaponry. The Mountain View tech giant updated its AI Principles webpage between January 30 and Feb.
Andrew Ng is ‘very glad’ Google dropped its AI weapons pledge
Andrew Ng, the founder and former leader of Google Brain, supports Google’s recent decision to drop its pledge not to build AI systems for weapons. “I’m very glad that Google has changed its stance,” Ng said during an on-stage interview Thursday evening with TechCrunch at the Military Veteran Startup Conference in San Francisco.
Google Drops Pledge to Not Use AI to Develop Weapons, Surveillance Technologies
Weeks into U.S. President Donald Trump’s second term, Google on Tuesday removed from its Responsible AI principles a commitment to not use artificial intelligence to develop technologies that could cause “overall harm,
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OpenAI cofounder John Schulman leaves Anthropic months after joining
OpenAI cofounder John Schulman has left rival artificial intelligence firm Anthropic, a job he held for about six months.