Google Sets Limits on Its Use of AI, but Allows Defense Work
Google Sets Limits on Its Use of AI, but Allows Defense Work
Business, Spoken · SpokenLayer
June 8, 20185m 9s
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Show Notes
Earlier this year, Google CEO Sundar Pichai described artificial intelligence as more profound to humanity than fire. Thursday, after protests from thousands of Google employees over a Pentagon project, Pichai offered guidelines for how Google will—and won’t—use the technology. One thing Pichai says Google won’t do: work on AI for weapons. But the guidelines leave much to the discretion of company executives, and allow Google to continue to work for the military.
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