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Google’s parent company has updated its ethical guidelines on AI, dropping a line that barred its use for creating technologies that could “cause or are likely to cause overall harm”.
Despite Google’s original motto of “don’t be evil” and an internal decision to end projects with the US Pentagon in 2018, this effectively opens the door to using artificial intelligence to develop weapons or surveillance tools.
In a blog post defending the decision Google’s senior vice president, James Manyika, and DeepMind co-founder Demis Hassabis argue that business and government should work together on AI that “supports national security”.
On the same day, Alphabet, the parent company, reported quarterly earnings $170 million lower than forecast, and committed to spending $75 billion on AI projects this year.
