Google changes the policy of artificial intelligence with the high temperature of the Silicon Valley to the defense technology
- Google has updated moral intelligence guidelines in a blog post on Tuesday.
- The post deleted the 2018 statement that Google will not use the artificial intelligence of weapons or monitoring.
- This announcement is followed by other silicone valley companies that seek to partnership with the United States in the field of defense technology.
Google has updated its moral guidelines for artificial intelligence in A. Blog post On Tuesday, the company’s previous promises are removed for not using its technology to build weapons or monitoring tools.
In 2018, the company specific Amnesty International “Applications that we will not follow.” These weapons included and “”Technologies that collect or use monitoring information that violates internationally accepted standards. “ In addition to “technologies that cause or may cause general damage” and “techniques that contradict the principles of international law and human rights.”
The 2018 post now includes note an accessory at the top of the page This says The company has updated the principles of artificial intelligence in New jobWhich does not mention the previous guidelines against Using the artificial intelligence of weapons and some Monitoring techniques.
The company published for the first time the instructions of artificial intelligence in 2018 after thousands of Google employees protested its participation in the MAVEN project, an Amnesty International project cooperated by Google and the US Department of Defense. After more than 4000 workers signed a petition demanding Google to stop working in Project Maven and promised not to “build war technology” again, the company decided not to renew its contract to build the Pentagon’s artificial intelligence tools.
James Manica, Vice President of Google I of Technology and Society, and Dimis Hasabis, Google DeepMindHe said in a Blog post Democratic states and companies should work together to take advantage of artificial intelligence that enhances internal security:
Executive officials wrote: “There is a global competition taking place to lead artificial intelligence within an increasingly complex geopolitical scene.” “We believe that democracies should lead to developing artificial intelligence, guided by basic values such as freedom, equality and respect for human rights. We believe that companies, governments and organizations that share these values must work together to create artificial intelligence that protects people, promotes global growth, and supports national security.” .
A Google spokesman did not immediately respond to the comment.
Although many are in Silicon Valley It was previously directed to US military contractsThis step-in the background of the Trump administration, the net of the United States of Chinese, and the Russian Ukraine war-is part of a broader transformation between technology companies and startups heading towards providing royal technology, including artificial intelligence tools, for defense purposes.
Defense technology companies and startups were optimistic that the industry was preparing to succeed during President Donald Trump’s second term. In November of last year, “Anduril Palmer Lucky’s founder said in an interview with Bloomberg TV of Trump. Doing a better job in buying the defense tools that protect our country. “
Late last year, Baltayer and Andrill, who manufactures independent vehicles for military use, conducted discussions with other defense companies and startups, including Spacex, Scalei and Openai, to form a set of bids for US government defense contracts.
