- Google’s new instructions removed a promise not to use it for weapons or supervision.
- Some employees have reacted aboard the company’s internal messages.
- Google said it is important for businesses and governments to work together for “national security”.
After Google withdrew his promise not to use artificial intelligence for weapons or supervision, some employees posted their reactions aboard the company’s internal messages.
The company said on Tuesday that it had updated its ethical instructions, which determine how Google will and will not use its technology. The new version removed the formulation that Google pledged will not use it to build weapons, surveillance tools or “technologies that cause or are likely to cause overall harm”.
Some Google employees expressed concerns about the change on board the company’s internal messages, Memegen, according to posts shared with Business Insider.
A meme showed CEO Sundar Pichai looking for Google’s search engine for “How to become a weapon contractor?”
Another employee retired to a popular meme of an actor dressed as a Nazi soldier in a television comedy outline. “Google removes a stop to use his weapon and supervision,” he reads. “Are we bad?”
Another post showed Sheldon from The Big Bang Theory asking why Google would leave her red weapon line, seeing reports for Google working closer to defense customers, including Pentagon, and responding, ” Oh, that’s why. ”
These were memes separated by only a small part of Google’s staff. The company has more than 180,000 employees; These comments reflect part of the workforce. Some googlers can support technology companies that work more closely with defense clients and the US government.
In recent years there has been a relocation between some technology companies and the onset towards providing more technology, including the tools, for protective purposes.
While Google did not directly accept the removal of the formulation, Demis Hassabis, Google Deepmind’s CEO and James Maryika, a senior vice president for technology and society, wrote a blog post on Tuesday in which they described an increasingly complicated “geopolitical geopolitical The landscape “and said it was important for businesses and governments to work together in the interest of” national security “.
“We believe that democracies must guide the development of it, guided by essential values such as freedom, equality and respect for human rights,” they writes. “And we believe that companies, governments and organizations that share these values must work together to create what protects people, promotes global growth and supports national security.”
Arrived for comment, a Google spokesman led BI in the company’s Tuesday post on the blog.
In 2018, Google employees protested a Pentagon program that he used to fight Google. The company abandoned the contract and set out the principles of the one that included examples of things that would not follow, clearly citing weapons and surveillance.
Blog posting about the 2018 principles now includes a link to top users showing updated instructions.
Google’s decision to attract red lines around weapons has left it out of military deals signed by other technology giants, including Amazon and Microsoft. Great efforts in it have been made since 2018, and the US is now competing with China and other places for technology.
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