Google Lifts a Ban on Using Its AI for Weapons and Surveillance

Google announced Tuesday that it is overhauling the principles governing how it uses artificial intelligence and other advanced technology. The company removed language promising not to pursue “technologies that cause or are likely to cause overall harm,” “weapons or other technologies whose principal purpose or implementation is to cause or directly facilitate injury to people,” “technologies that gather or use information for surveillance violating internationally accepted norms,” and “technologies whose purpose contravenes widely accepted principles of international law and human rights.”

The changes were disclosed in a note appended to the top of a 2018 blog post unveiling the guidelines. “We’ve made updates to

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