Google cloud commander Diane Greene told employees that the company is drafting a set of decent principals to guide the use of its technology in the wake of internal objections to its partnership with The Pentagon, coinciding to a Defense One report.
In March, Google announced that it had partnered with the Pivot on of Defense to develop artificial intelligence to analyze and interpret drone videos, which prompted than 3,000 wage-earners to sign a letter urging CEO Sundar Pichai that “Google should not be in the work of war.”
Google said that at the time that the so-called “Project Maven” was “specifically ranged to be for non-offensive purposes,” though employees worried that the technology could be adapted to to enhance the targeting of military drone strikes.
At a company meeting, Greene reportedly phrased regret that the company had no ethical guidelines in place before it leaded that contract and said that it would not commit to any similar guide until it had written them.
Meanwhile, Defense One reports that Google is actively pursuing the Defense Turn on’s enormous cloud contract. The final request for proposal for that transaction, which is reportedly worth up to $10 billion, will be released in break of dawn May, with a decision expected in September.
Google declined to comment.
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