Pentagon Will Expand AI Project Prompting Protests at Google
Pentagon Will Expand AI Project Prompting Protests at Google
Business, Spoken · SpokenLayer
May 29, 20186m 35s
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Show Notes
At Google’s campus in Mountain View, California, executives are trying to assuage thousands of employees protesting a contract with the Pentagon’s flagship artificial-intelligence initiative, Project Maven. Thousands of miles away, algorithms trained under Project Maven—which includes companies other than Google—are helping war fighters identify potential ISIS targets in video from drones.
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