Tuesday 15 May 2018
About a dozen Google employees reportedly left the company over its insistence on developing AI for the US military through a program called Project Maven. Meanwhile 4,000 others signed a petition demanding the company stop. It looks like there’s some internal confusion over whether the company’s “Don’t Be Evil” motto covers making machine learning systems to aid warfare. Worst killer robots ever: Google isn’t developing weapons for the government, at least not according to Google Cloud CEO Diane Greene. It’s instead helping the military configure TensorFlow for use analyzing video footage shot by drones. If you believe that: We’ve got a…
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