Google pledges not to develop AI weapons, but says it will still work with the military
Google has released a set of principles to guide its work in artificial intelligence, making good on a promise to do so last month following a months-long controversy over its involvement in a Department of Defense drone project. The document, titled “AI at Google: our principles” and published today on Google’s primary public blog, sets out objectives the company is pursuing with AI, as well as those applications it refuses to participate in. It’s authored by Google CEO Sundar Pichai.
Notably, Pichai says his company will never develop AI technologies that “cause or are likely to cause overall harm”; involve weapons; are used for surveillance that violates “internationally accepted norms”; and “whose purpose contravenes widely accepted...