Google plains promise not to use AI technology for weapons or surveillance

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Google’s updated public AI ethical policy removes its promise that it will not use the technology to pursue weapons and surveillance applications.

In an earlier version of the seen principles by CNN on Internet Archive Wayback MachineThe company included applications it will not pursue. Such a category was weapons or other technology that was supposed to hurt people. Another was technology used to monitor beyond international norms.

That language is away on the updated Principles Page.

Since Openai launched Chatbot Chatgpt in 2022, the artificial intelligence run has advanced at a staggering pace. While AI has boomed in use, legislation and regulations on transparency and ethics in AI have not yet obtained-and now appears that Google has loosened self-impaired restrictions.

In one Blog post TuesdaySenior Vice President of Research, Labs, Technology & Society James Manyika and Google Deepmind Head Demis Hassabis said AI frames published by democratic countries have elaborated on Google’s “Understanding AI’s potential and risks.”

“There is a global competition that takes place for AI management within an increasingly complex geopolitical landscape. We believe that democracies should lead to AI development, guided by core values ​​such as freedom, equality and respect for human rights, ”the blog post said.

The post continued, “and we believe that companies, governments and organizations that share these values ​​must work together to create AI that protects people, promotes global growth and supports national security.”

Google first published its AI principles in 2018 years before the technology became almost ubiquitous. Google’s update is a sharp reversing in values ​​from them Original published principles.

In 2018, Google declined a $ 10 billion bid on a Cloud Computing Pentagon contract and said at the time “We couldn’t be sure it would adapt to our AI principles.” More than 4,000 employees had signed a petition that Years that require “a clear policy that neither Google nor its contractors will ever build warning technology,” and around a dozen employees withdrew in protest.

CNN has reached Google for Comment.

CNNS Jordan Valinsky contributed to this report.