The New York Times is reporting that thousands of Google employees, have signed a letter protesting Googles involvement with a Pentagon program that uses artificial intelligence to interpret videos and could improve the targeting of drone strikes. The letter has been signed by more than 3,100 employees, including dozens of senior engineers.
You would think with a company slogan like "Don't be evil," helping make drone strikes more accurate to save civilian lives would be right up their alley? That's the best I can do while reminding myself this isn't the Soapbox. Thanks to cageymaru for the story.
The company subsequently described its work on Project Maven as "non-offensive" in nature, though the Pentagon’s video analysis is routinely used in counterinsurgency and counterterrorism operations, and Defense Department publications make clear that the project supports those operations. Both Google and the Pentagon said the company’s products would not create an autonomous weapons system that could fire without a human operator, a much-debated possibility using artificial intelligence.
You would think with a company slogan like "Don't be evil," helping make drone strikes more accurate to save civilian lives would be right up their alley? That's the best I can do while reminding myself this isn't the Soapbox. Thanks to cageymaru for the story.
The company subsequently described its work on Project Maven as "non-offensive" in nature, though the Pentagon’s video analysis is routinely used in counterinsurgency and counterterrorism operations, and Defense Department publications make clear that the project supports those operations. Both Google and the Pentagon said the company’s products would not create an autonomous weapons system that could fire without a human operator, a much-debated possibility using artificial intelligence.