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Google’s update ethics policy removes its promise that it will not use technology to pursue weapons and surveillance applications.
In a previous version of the principles seen By CNN on the Internet Wayback Machine ArchiveThe company included requests that it will not continue. One of these categories was weapons or any other technology intended to hurt people. Another was the technology used to monitor international standards.
This language is Starting on the update Principles page.
Since Openai has launched Chatbot Chatgpt in 2022The artificial intelligence race has progressed at a dizzying rate. While AI has exploded, legislation and regulations on transparency and ethics in AI have not yet caught up – and now Google seems to have released the self -imposed restrictions.
In a Blog article TuesdayVice-president Director of Research, Laboratories, Technology and Company James Manyika and Google Deepmind Head Demis Hassabis said that AI executives published by Democratic countries have deepened “Google’s understanding of potential and risks “of AI and AI”.
“There is a global competition for AI leadership in an increasingly complex geopolitical landscape. We believe that democracies should lead in the development of AI, guided by fundamental values such as freedom, equality and respect for human rights, “said the blog.
The position continued, “and we believe that companies, governments and organizations sharing these values should work together to create an AI that protects people, promotes global growth and supports national security.”
Google published its IA principles for the first time in 2018, years before technology became almost omnipresent. Google’s update is a strong inversion of the values of those Original published principles.
In 2018, Google has abandoned an offer of $ 10 billion for a Pentagon contract in Cloud ComputingSaying at the time “we could not be assured that this would align with our principles of AI”. More than 4,000 employees had signed a petition that A demanding year “a clear policy indicating that neither Google nor its entrepreneurs will strengthen war technology” and that a dozen employees have resigned to protest.
CNN contacted Google to comment.
The Jordan Valinsky of CNN contributed to this report.