Google vows on AI uses for weapons

Technology giant Google’s original company alphabet, no longer promising that it will never use Artificial Intelligence (AI) for purposes such as weapons and monitoring equipment.

The firm re -written the principles guiding their use of AI, leaving a section, which uses that “the possibility to cause damage”.

In A blog post James, Senior Vice President of Google, and Demis Hasabis, who led AI Lab Google Deepmind, defended the move.

They argue that businesses and democratic governments need to work together on AI that “supports national security”.

There is a debate between AI experts and professionals how powerful new technology should be widely controlled, how far commercial benefits should be allowed to determine its direction, and to protect from risks for humanity in general. How is the best for.

There is also Controversy On the battlefield and around the use of AI in monitoring technologies.

The blog said that the basic AI principles of the company published in 2018 need to be updated as the technology was developed.

“Arabs are using AI in their everyday life. AI has become a common-purpose technique, and a platform that uses countless organizations and individual applications.

The blog post said, “It has been transferred from a niche research topic to a technology in the lab that is becoming widespread as mobile phones and internet.”

As a result, baseline AI principles were also being developed, which could guide the general strategies, it said.

However, Mr. Hasabis and Shri Manyika said that geopolitical landscape was becoming increasingly complicated.

“We believe that democracy should lead to AI development, directed by main values ​​such as freedom, equality and honor for human rights,” the blog post said.

“And we believe that companies, governments and organizations that share these values ​​should work together to make AI that protects people, promotes global development and supports national security.”

The blog post was published just before the end of the year’s financial report of the Alphabet, showing results that were weaker than the market expectations, and its stock was knocking back.

This was despite a 10% increase in revenue from digital advertising, its biggest earnings were increased by US election expenses.

In its earnings report, the company said that it would spend $ 75BN ($ 60BN) on AI projects this year, 29% higher than Wall Street analysts.

The company is investing in infrastructure to run applications such as AI, AI research and AI-operated discovery.

Google’s AI platform Gemini now appears on top of Google search results, offers AI written summary, and Google Pixel pops up on the phone.

Originally, the founders of AI, Google, Sergei Brin and Larry Page’s current bouncing in the morality of the morality, said that his motto for the firm was “don’t become evil”. When the company was restructured under the Alphabet Inc. name in 2015, the original company switched to “correct work”.

Since then, Google Staff has sometimes pushed back against the approach raised by its officials. In 2018 The firm did not renew a contract for AI work with US Pentagon After a resignation and a petition signed by thousands of employees.

He feared that “Project Maven” was the first step towards using artificial intelligence for fatal purposes.