“Democracy should lead.” Google refused a ban on using AI to create weapons

Google has made one of the most significant changes to its principles in the field of artificial intelligence since their first publication in 2018. The search giant edited the document by removing a section called “Programs we won’t use. ” Along with him, the promises that the company will not develop or deploy AI tools for use in weapons or other technologies, the main purpose or implementation of which is to cause or direct assistance to harm to people.

Instead a section called “Responsible development and deployment. ” Google states it that will be implemented “appropriate human supervision, proper verification and feedback mechanisms for harmonization with user goals, social responsibility and generally accepted principles of international law and human rights. ” These are much wider obligations than those that the company has assumed earlier.

In order to comment on the situation, Google spoke to Techcrunch and Engadget journalists to a blog post that the company posted last week. It has Deepmind Director Deepmind Demis Hassabis and James Manica, Senior Vice -Cresident of Google for Research, reported that the emergence of AI as “general -purpose technology” demanded a change in politics.

“We believe that democratic countries should be the leaders in the development of AI, guided by such basic values ​​as freedom, equality and respect for human rights. And we believe that companies, governments and organizations that share these values ​​must work together on the creation of a shot, which protects people, promotes global growth and maintains national security, ”they wrote.

We will remind, Google published a document that set out its principles for the work of the AI, after completion of the Maven’s project in 2018. This project was supposed to provide for the provision of artificial intelligence software to the US Ministry of Defense to analyze drones. Earlier this year, The Washington Post reported that Google staff had been working with the Israeli Ministry of Defense to expand the use of artificial intelligence tools by government.