Tech Giant states that AI will be used in accordance with “international law and human rights” in updated ethical policies.
Google has withdrawn a pledge not to use artificial intelligence for weapons and monitoring in the latest ethical policy on powerful technology.
According to the previous version of the “AI Principles”, the Internet giant based in California “is likely to cause overall harm”, such as weapons and surveillance that violate “internationally accepted norms”. Including a commitment that does not pursue technology.
Google’s revised policy has been announced on Tuesday. The company has stated that AI is pursuing “with responsibility” and pursuing “the principles of international law and human rights widely accepted”, but does not include the previous language on weapons and monitoring.
“I believe that democracy should lead AI development led to core values, such as freedom, equality, and respect for human rights,” said James Manyika, a Senior Vice President of Google Deepmind and Research Labs. I mentioned in a blog post to announce the updated policy.
“And companies, governments, and organizations that share these values need to cooperate in protecting people, promoting global growth, and creating AI to support national security. Masu.”
Google did not respond immediately to Al Jazeera’s comments.
Google first published a list of AI principles in 2018 after the employee protested the company’s participation in the US Department of Defense’s project Maven. This was considered using AI to identify the target of drone strikes.
Google chose to not renew the contract with Pentagon following the rebound. This is a number of staff resigned, and thousands of other people have signed a petition that blame the company’s involvement in the project.
Tech Giant announced in the latter half of the year that it could no longer be competed for a $ 10 billion cloud computing agreement with Pentagon, because it was unable to guarantee the AI principle.
Google’s updated ethical policy is to join a technology leader including Amazon’s founder Jeff BEZOS and META’s chief Mark Zuckerberg, and joins a technologies leader, Sundar Pichai, the leader of the parent company Alphabet Inc. It is supposed to have attended the inauguration ceremony of President Donald Trump.
A few hours after taking office, Trump withdrew the presidential order by the former US President Joe Biden, who established a specific guardrail for rapidly developing technology.
Biden’s order has demanded that AI develops the results of safety tests with the government before publishing new technologies to the public.
