Google removes pledge to not use AI for weapons, surveillance

Google removes pledge to not use AI for weapons, surveillance

Sundar Pichai, CEO of Alphabet Inc., during Stanford’s 2024 Business, Government, and Society forum in Stanford, California, April 3, 2024.

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Google has removed a pledge to abstain from using AI for potentially harmful applications, such as weapons and surveillance, according to the company’s updated “AI Principles.”

A prior version of the company’s AI principles said the company would not pursue “weapons or other technologies whose principal purpose or…

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