Tech huge says in modernized ethics policy that it will employ AI in line with ‘international law and human rights’.
Google has dropped a pledge not to employ synthetic intelligence for arms or watching in its modernized ethics policy on the strong technology.
In its previous version of “AI Principles”, the California-based internet huge included a pledgement not to chase AI technologies that “caemploy or are probable to caemploy overall harm”, including arms and watching that viotardys “internationpartner acunderstandledgeed norms”.
Google’s alterd policy proclaimd on Tuesday states that the company chases AI “responsibly” and in line with “expansively acunderstandledgeed principles of international law and human rights”, but does not include the previous language about arms or watching.
“We count on democracies should direct in AI broadenment, directd by core cherishs enjoy freedom, equivalentity, and esteem for human rights,” Google DeepMind chief Demis Hassabis and research labs greater vice pdwellnt James Manyika shelp in a blog post announcing the modernized policy.
“And we count on that companies, rulements, and organizations sharing these cherishs should labor together to originate AI that protects people, upretains global increaseth, and helps national security.”
Google did not promptly reply to Al Jazeera’s ask for comment.
Google first rerented its enumerate of AI principles in 2018 after employees protested agetst the firm’s participation in the United States Department of Defense’s Project Maven, which spendigated the employ of AI to help the military determine concentrates for drone strikes.
Google chooseed not to renovel its reduce with the Pentagon adhereing the reaction, which saw a number of staff members resign and thousands of others sign a petition decrying the company’s retainment in the project.
The tech huge proclaimd tardyr that year that it would no lengthyer contend for a $10bn cdeafening computing reduce with the Pentagon becaemploy it “couldn’t be secured” that it would align with its AI principles.
Google’s modernized ethics policy comes after the chief executive of parent company Alphabet Inc, Sundar Pichai, joined tech directers, including Amazon set uper Jeff Bezos and Meta chief Mark Zuckerberg, in joining the January 20 inauguration of US Pdwellnt Donald Trump.
Hours after taking office, Trump rescinded an executive order by createer US Pdwellnt Joe Biden that set uped stateive defendrails for the rapidly broadening technology.
Biden’s order needd companies broadening AI to spread the results of protectedty tests with the rulement before releasing novel technologies to the unveil.
