Earlier this month Google announced it would not be renewing its contract with the U.S. Department of Defense for Project Maven. Caving after thousands of employees signed a petition against the ...

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After abandoning its involvement in a Pentagon project, Google has vowed to never develop AI technologies that can be used for war or surveillance. Google's new policy around AI development is focused ...

The group is promoting a set of principles to guide the development of AI systems that won't trample on human rights. In wake of Project Maven backlash, Google unveils new AI policies Today Google ...

Google’s highly publicized pullout from a U.S. military artificial intelligence project last year may have been a damaging blow to the relationship between Silicon Valley and the Pentagon, but it also ...

Project Maven -- the deal through which Google is providing the Pentagon with AI software that can flag drone images that require further human review -- has been a thorn in the company's side for ...

Even as the U.S. Air Force continues to search out potential solutions for streamlining drone and surveillance operations, leaders want to use artificial intelligence systems to sift through collected ...

Google may no longer be providing artificial intelligence to the Pentagon under Project Maven, but the Silicon Valley company is moving ahead on other efforts that could ultimately support military ...

More than a year after pulling out of a contract with the Pentagon that relied on technologies based on artificial intelligence to sort through drone videos, Google says it is ready to work with the ...

Today Google unveiled a new set of principles guiding its approach to artificial intelligence, including a pledge not to build AI weapons, “technologies that gather or use information for surveillance ...

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