Google has updated its principles for AI, and the mention has disappeared not to develop weapons with this technology

In the middle of the growing rivalry in the industry of the artificial intelligence (AI), some companies are adjusting their approaches to the scopes of this technology. Last year, Openai suppressed certain terms of your policy before announcing An agreement with the Pentagon. Now is Google’s turn, which has updated its “principles for AI”.

Mountain View firm has almost completely redesigned the aforementioned documentbut what has caught the attention is the absence of the category “AI applications that we are not going to address.” As his name suggested, he grouped several specific areas in which IA would not be designed or implemented to preserve the responsible development of it.

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As we can see in the capture, The original list It included in its first item “technologies that cause or can cause damage in general. When there is a important risk of causing damagewe will continue only when we consider that the benefits considerably compensate the risks, and we will include adequate restrictions to ensure security ”.

The following items indicated “armament or other technologies whose main purpose or application is to cause damage or hurt people, technologies that collect or use information to monitor breach of internationally accepted standards, technologies whose purpose contravenes the generally accepted principles of international law and rights humans “.

The “AI applications that we are not going to embroider” in the original document

Bloomberg, who was one of the first means to detect change, requested comments from Google. The company responded with a blog post signed by James Manyika, SVP of Google, and Demis Hassabis, who directs the Laboratory of the Google Deepmind, which speaks of the Responsible development of AI in democracy and Refer to the page with updated principles.

“We recognize the speed with which the underlying technology, and the debate around the progress, implementation and uses of AI, will continue to evolve, and continue adapting and refining our approach as we all learn over time,” he said The company. It should be noted that new defense contracts have not been announced by Google.

In the past, the firm led by Laster Pichai worked with the pentagon in the Maven projectwhich was to use AI to process data from various sources (mainly drones), identify potential objectives in war areas and more. Google decided not to renew your collaboration contract With the US government after their own employees protest.

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