Google Lifts Self-Imposed Ban on Using AI for Weapons and Surveillance
Google dropped a pledge not to use artificial intelligence for weapons and surveillance systems on Tuesday. And it’s just the latest sign that Big Tech is no longer concerned with the potential blowback that can come when consumer-facing tech companies get big, lucrative contracts to develop police surveillance tools and weapons of war.
Google erases promise not to use AI technology for weapons or surveillance
Google’s updated AI ethics policy removes its promise that it won’t use the technology to pursue weapons and surveillance.
Google deletes policy against using AI for weapons or surveillance
Google has quietly deleted its pledge not to use AI for weapons or surveillance, a promise that had been in place since 2018.
Google Lifts a Ban on Using Its AI for Weapons and Surveillance
Google published principles in 2018 barring its AI technology from being used for sensitive purposes. Weeks into President Donald Trump’s second term, those guidelines are being overhauled.
Google drops pledge not to use AI for weapons or surveillance
Google changed its public AI policies to remove assertions it would not develop AI applied to surveillance or weapons.
Google Removes Language on Weapons From Public AI Principles
Alphabet Inc.’s Google removed a passage from its artificial intelligence principles that pledged to avoid using the technology in potentially harmful applications, such as weapons.
Google scraps promise not to develop AI weapons
Google updated its artificial intelligence principles on Tuesday to remove commitments around not using the technology in ways “that cause or are likely to cause overall harm.” A scrubbed section of the revised AI ethics guidelines previously committed Google to not designing or deploying AI for use in surveillance,
Google opens door to AI-powered weapons, surveillance
In an update to its AI principles, Google pointedly omits an earlier ban on developing AI weapons or surveillance technology.
Google pledge against using AI for weapons vanishes
Google on Tuesday updated its principles when it comes to artificial intelligence, removing vows not to use the technology for weapons or surveillance.
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